Imagination Quotes

Imagination Quote

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

Reality, Leaves

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Mind, Energy

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Intelligence, Wife, Mistress

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

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Change, Power, Freedom

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

Love, Nature, Canvas

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill

Reality, Thought, Beginning

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

Heart, Rather, Sensitive

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Speaking, Wilderness, Traveler

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

Last, Desire, Beginning

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

Funny, Memory, Mistake

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself, Mind, Picture

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Hurt, Reality, Often

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix

Science, Rest, Key

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

Life, Enemy, Everything

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney

Long, Left, Grow

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Brad Henry

Teacher, Love, Good

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

Business, Give, Succeed

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton

Time, Men, Result

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts

Money, Great, Enjoy

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

Nature, Eyes, Joy

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

Reality, Try, Free

Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Dreams, Why, Eye

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