Imagination Quotes

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

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Ideas control the world.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

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.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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

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

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

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.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.