Imagination Quotes

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.
H. L. Mencken

God, Wise, Impossible

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

Life, Real, Three

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller

God, Everything, Voice

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

Yourself, Character, Public

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rules, Clouds, Castle

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

Library, Paradise, Imagined

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Heart, Eyes, Cannot

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

Best, Mind, End

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

Men, Feelings, Act

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness, Reason, Ideal

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
e. e. cummings

Living, Imagine, Yes

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

Trust, Head, Voice

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

Powerful, Young, Belief

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France

Nothing, Everything, Imagine

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortunate, Imagines

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

Nothing, Sea, Land

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

Reality, Fiction, Truths

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell

Society, Character, Solitude

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
Chris Brown

Wanted, Imagined

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Gilbert Parker

Love, Passes, Root

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Simon Pegg

Lie, Happen, Used

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Rita Dove

Before, Impossible, Possible

Some stories are true that never happened.
Elie Wiesel

True, Happened, Stories

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan

Player, Ordinary, Believed

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

Ignorance, Color, Eye

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