Quotes About Imagination

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future ... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself.

One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

When there is no vision, people perish.

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.

One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed, for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination?

Miguel de Cervantes

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths out grabe.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.