Motivational Quotes

Imagination

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Imagination

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Thoreau, Henry David

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

Imagination decides everything.

Pascal, Blaise

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Carson, Rachel

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Bierstedt, Robert

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Gerard, Ralph

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

Shaw, P.K.

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The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Sade, Marquis De

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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

Kettering, Charles F.

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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Gallimore, J. G.

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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Coue, Emile

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.

Rainbow, George Weiss

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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Some people have just enough imagination to spoil their judgment.

Mallory, Paul

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Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Proust, Marcel

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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Meredith, George

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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.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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People can die of mere imagination.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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By visualizing your goals, you can get your subconscious to work toward making these mental pictures come true.

Success Magazine

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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

J.K. Rowling

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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Capability means imagination...

Hill, Napoleon

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Man is an imagining being.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

Vizinczey, Stephen

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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Connelly, Billy

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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

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First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

Einstein, Albert

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The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.

Saying

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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier

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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Wilde, Oscar

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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

Pascal, Blaise

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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Brown, Les

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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

Einstein, Albert

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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.

Ward, William A.

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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Bunuel, Luis

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

Cooley, Charles Horton