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Quotes About Imagination

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
~ William Blake
We should use our imagination more than our memory.
~ Shimon Peres
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
~ Helen Keller
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.
~ Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.
~ Wayne Shorter
Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.
~ H. W. L. Poonja
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace
~ Gaston Bachelard
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
~ Edmund Burke
See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.
~ Ray Bradbury
In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.
~ Richard Louv
The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
~ Haruki Murakami
Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.
~ Winston Churchill
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
~ Rufus Wainwright
On this International Day of Peace, let us dare to imagine a world free of conflict and violence
~ Kofi Annan
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.
~ John Knowles
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
~ Ovid
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
~ Melissa Marr
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
~ John Lennon
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
~ Meg Rosoff
Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams.... A place of peace and harmony... that's the kind of land I invision.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.
~ William Butler Yeats
An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust
~ Subhasis Das, I.T. Hurts
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
~ Norman Cousins