Quotes about Imagination

“Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.”

“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”

“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”

“You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.”

“Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.”

“The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.”

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.”

“It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.”

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”

“I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.”

“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”

“Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.”

“When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

“Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.”

“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”

“I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.”

“We especially need imagination in science.”

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”

“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”

“If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?”

“I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.”