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

Jill Lepore

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

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

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

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

William Arthur Ward

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Richard Bach

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

Gary Zukav