Quotes for Imagination

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Jill Lepore

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

Nicole Kidman

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Napoleon Hill

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

Anatole France

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Lauren Bacall

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Ben Okri

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Charles M. Schwab

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake