Imagination Quotes
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There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
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If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
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If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
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I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.
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For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
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The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.
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The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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And then there are those ninth grade followers of European methods, who are as puerile in technique as they are void in imagination.
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Dots ...: Small marks variously made to indicate infinity, hesitation, duplication, or lack of imagination.
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When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'
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Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
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Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others', mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what's in her basket.
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I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.
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Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.
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Stabilizing the climate is not about saving the human species... Stabilizing the climate is a precious opportunity to pass on to all future human beings gifts of immense value, gifts that, once gone, will be beyond the imagination and skill of humanity to recreate.
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But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.
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But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.
