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Imagination Quotes

Imagination Quotes

1. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

2. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

3. The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

4. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw

5. What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake

6. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas A. Edison

7. Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon Bonaparte

8. What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. - Julius Caesar

9. The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. - Benjamin Disraeli

10. The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. - Charlie Chaplin

11.  A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. - Isaac Newton

12. I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. - Khalil Gibran

13. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

14. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

15. Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. - W. Somerset Maugham

16. You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. -  Steven Spielberg

17. He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18. I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. - Albert Einstein

19. Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

20. Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

21. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

22. There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. - Ronald Reagan

23. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. - Harry S Truman

24. Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? - Leonardo da Vinci

25. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. - Jonas Salk

26. A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

27. Science does not know its debt to imagination. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

29. Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live. - Ada Lovelace

30. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

31. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. - J. K. Rowling

32. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. - Henry Ford

33. I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. - H. G. Wells

34. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

35. My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

36. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Jane Austen.

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