Favorite Quotes on Imagination

•  “Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
  ― J. K.  Rowling
  

  Author J.K. Rowling reads from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at the Easter Egg Roll at White House. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• “A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
  ― Percy Bysshe Shelly
•  “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
  ― Albert Einstein
  

  Signature of Albert Einstein from Princeton in 1934 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

  

  Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
  ― Albert Einstein
• “Everything you can imagine is real.”
  ― Pablo Picasso
• “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
  ― Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde in his favourite coat. New York. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
  ― Oscar Wilde
• “If you are a dreamer come in
  If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
  A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
  If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
  For we have some flax golden tales to spin
  Come in!
  Come in!”
  ― Shel Silverstein
• “Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
  ― John Lennon
• “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
  ― Albert Einstein
• “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun”
  ― Pablo Picasso
• “Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
  ― Marylin Monroe 
• “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
  ― John Keats
• “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
  ― Mark Twain
  

  Mark Twain – Young (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
  ― Carl Sagan
• “Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
  ― Victor Hugo
• “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
  ― Walt Disney Company
• “Imgination rules the world”
  ― Napoleon Bonaparte
  

  Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• “And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.”
  ― Stephen King
• “The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”
  ― Oscar Wilde
• “Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”
  ― Lauren Bacall
• “I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
  ― Jeanette Winterson
• “If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.”
  ― Frederick Beuchener
• “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
  ― J.G. Ballard
• “I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that’s just the way I paint best.” ― Hedy Lamarr 

Hedy Lamarr. Inventor of Wireless Communication. One of the Amazingly Unique Combinations of Beauty and Brain.

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