Imagination Quotes

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I doubt the imagination can be suppressed. If

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination--it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon--that which raises it from earth.

Ever let the fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a dutchess.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions.

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Imagination is the air of mind

The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long-anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low.

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties And things that go bump in the night, good Lord deliver us!

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.