Imagination Quotes

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

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

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

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

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

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

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.

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.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.