Quotes

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.
-Duane Michals

And castels buylt above in lofty skies, Which never yet had good foundation.
-George Gascoigne

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
-Henry David Thoreau

When I could not sleep for cold I had fire enough in my brain, And builded with roofs of gold My beautiful castles in Spain!
-James Russell Lowell

These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
-Junius

Imagination is the air of mind.
-Philip James Bailey

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-Robert Burton

The human race is governed by its imagination.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
-Carl Sagan

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
-E E Cummings

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-George Gascoigne

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
-Henry David Thoreau

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
-Jessamyn West

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
-Lewis Carroll

Everything you can imagine is real.
-Picasso

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-Sir Francis Bacon

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
-Dr Seuss

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
-Frank Barron

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
-George Jean Nathan

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
-Jack London

Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function.
-John Pfeiffer

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
-Norman Podhoretz

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.
-Richard Feynman

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.
-Terry Prachett

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
-Albert Einstein

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
-Dr Seuss

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
-G K Chesterton

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
-Helen Rowland

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
-James D Finley

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
-Joseph Joubert

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
-Paul Gauguin

Build castles in the air.
-Robert Burton

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay