Imagination Quotes

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

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

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

Imagination is the air of mind.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

People can die of mere imagination.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.