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Quotes About Imagination

There's no impossible in the universe.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
What we stationed in our minds, our eyes behold.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
~ Sir Arthur Eddington
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.
~ Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.
~ Sir Edmund Hillary
Há momentos, na vida, em que a sabedoria vem da imaginação e não da prudência.
~ Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
~ Sir Isaac Newton
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.
~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.
~ Sir John Gielgud
Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.
~ Sir John Mandeville
Inspire creativity in students
~ Sir Ken Robinson
La primera limitación está en nuestra comprensión del alcance de nuestras posibilidades.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
unfortuneately a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential of nightmares
~ Sir Peter Ustinov
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry...thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
Art is the perfection of nature.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Not picked from the leaves of any author, but bred amongst the weeds and tares of mine own brain.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
~ Sir Walter Ralegh
Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a man opens a novel,. he likes to have a masculine name on the cover; it's reassuring somehow. You never know what might happen to that external genitalia if you immerse yourself in imaginary doings concocted by someone with the goods on the inside.
~ Siri Hustvedt