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Imagination |
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Quotations
 | Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 15 likes |
 | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 10 likes |
 | In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 10 likes |
 | The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 9 likes |
 | When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 9 likes |
| God and the imagination are one. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 7 likes |
 | You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 7 likes |
 | To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 6 likes |
 | Anything you can imagine you can make real. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 6 likes |
 | Imagination is more important than knowledge. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
 | Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 5 likes |
 | Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 5 likes |
 | Our imagination flies —we are its shadow on the earth. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
 | Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | Everything to be imagined is an image of truth. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
| One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
 | Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 4 likes |
 | Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer (Tropic of Capricorn, 1939) 4 likes |
 | Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 4 likes |
 | My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 4 likes |
 | Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
| The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
 | Everything you can imagine is real. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 3 likes |
| Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 3 likes |
 | Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
| At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | Imagination is the eye of the soul. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Imagination, not intelligence, made us human. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 2 likes |
 | Life has much more imagination than we do. — François Truffaut, 1932-1984, French film director 2 likes |
 | Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality. — Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer 1 likes |
 | Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 1 likes |
 | Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake? — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
| The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
| He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Hate is a lack of imagination. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. — William Maxwell, 1908-2000, American writer 1 likes |
 | The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
| The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
| Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
| The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | I really like that the heart dictates, that the imagination writes and that the mind corrects. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist 1 likes |
 | Where there is no imagination, there is no horror. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | The dream is the proof that to imagine, to dream of what has not existed, is one of the deepest needs of man. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | It is not the fear of madness that will force us to lower the flag of the imagination. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 1 likes |
| Dear imagination, what I love most about you is that you don't forgive. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 1 likes |
 | Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 1 likes |
 | The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| The imagination is man's power over nature. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 4 likes |
 | To shut your eyes is to travel. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 7 likes |
