Quotes About Imagination

What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you seek to give you what only God can give.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

My imagination creates my reality.

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.