Imagination Quotes

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Paul Farmer

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

Jack Prelutsky

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

William Blake

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Karen Armstrong

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

Henry David Thoreau

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

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

Paul Gauguin

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

C. S. Lewis

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

Julianna Baggott

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Sandra Bernhard

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Anne Sullivan Macy

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.

Donald Trump

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Oscar Wilde

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

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

James Russell Lowell

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Edgar Allan Poe

Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.

Percy Bysshe Shelley