Quotes About Imagination

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.

Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a la playa.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

les plus belles années d'une vie sont celles que l'on a pas encore vécues.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Do we ever realize our fondest dreams?

When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything.

La pensée est le labeur de l'intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.

Rien n'est tel que le dogme pour enfanter le rêve. Et rien n'est tel que le rêve pour engendrer l'avenir. Utopie aujourd'hui, chair et os demain.

A book is so soon made, costs so little, and may go so far! Why should we surprised that all human thought flows that way?

Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is your mistress and memory is your slave.