Quotes for Imagination

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

William Hazlitt

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Paul Ryan

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Francis Bacon

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Meryl Streep

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Al Gore

Art is one of the prime ways we have of opening ourselves and going beyond ourselves. That's what art is: it's the product of the human being in the world and imagination, all coming together.

Ali Smith

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

Geraldine Brooks

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Wayne Dyer

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Samuel Johnson

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Olivier Martinez

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Salman Rushdie