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Quotes About Imagination

Imagination is the air of mind.
~ Philip James Bailey
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
~ Ariel Dorfman
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
~ Andrew Wyeth
One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.
~ Jasper Johns
I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.
~ Matthew Carter
Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination
~ Stephenie Meyer
The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
~ Bob Goff
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Microsoft's only factory asset is the human imagination.
~ Bill Gates
An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
~ Michelle Obama
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
~ W. H. Auden
By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.
~ William Grey Walter
Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
~ Frances Wright
There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.
~ David Travis
Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.
~ Fred Bear
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
~ Charles Dickens
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
~ Umberto Eco
Imagination is something you do alone.
~ Steve Wozniak