Quotes about Imagination

“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?”

“Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.”

“True change takes place in the imagination.”

“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”

“Doubt is the father of invention.”

“Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.”

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”

“The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.”

“Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.”

“Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.”

“If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.”

“I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.”

“The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.”

“I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.”

“Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.”

“I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?”

“We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.”

“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”

“I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.”