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Quotes About Imagination

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.
~ Walt Disney
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
~ Mark Strand
Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.
~ Wayne Dyer
Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
~ Denise Levertov
Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
~ Aristotle
All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.
~ Leonardo Sciascia
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
~ Rowan Williams
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination.
~ John Stewart Bell
Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ's hands.
~ Charlotte Mason
I am really the victim of other people's imagination.
~ John Hurt
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
~ Helen Rowland
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
~ James Broughton
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
~ Francis Cabot Lowell
Of course! The path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.
~ Mary Oliver
The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.
~ John Seely Brown
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.
~ Patricia Highsmith
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.
~ Shane Claiborne
The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
~ Sheila Ballantyne
Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
If you're going to perform inception, you need imagination. You need the simplest version of the idea-the one that will grow naturally in the subject's mind. Subtle art.
~ Christopher Nolan
Imagination is more valuable than information.
~ Albert Einstein
Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
~ William Wordsworth
With imagination, I'll get there.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.