- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Imagination
- Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
- Mason Cooley on Imagination
- Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
- Daniel Bell on Imagination
- Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
- Terry Wogan on Imagination
- That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
- George Berkeley on Imagination
- The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
- Richard Wright on Imagination
- The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
- William Trevor on Imagination
- The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
- Ai Weiwei on Imagination
- The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
- William Irwin Thompson on Imagination
- The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
- Jeri Ryan on Imagination
- The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung on Imagination
- The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
- George Santayana on Imagination
- The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
- Richard Hofstadter on Imagination
- The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
- Richard Powers on Imagination
- The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
- Vladimir Kramnik on Imagination
- The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
- Derek Walcott on Imagination
- The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
- Henry James on Imagination
- The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
- Gilbert Murray on Imagination
- The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
- Van Morrison on Imagination
- The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
- Eddie Rickenbacker on Imagination
- The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
- Bill Walton on Imagination
- The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Imagination
- The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
- Ben Okri on Imagination
- The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
- Edmund Wilson on Imagination
- The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
- John Berger on Imagination
- The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
- John Desmond Bernal on Imagination
- The human race is governed by its imagination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Imagination
- The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
- Mary Richards on Imagination
- The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
- Oscar Wilde on Imagination
- The imagination is man's power over nature.
- Wallace Stevens on Imagination
- The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.
- Bryan Cranston on Imagination
- The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
- Terence McKenna on Imagination
- The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
- Marquis De Sade on Imagination
- The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
- Bruno Rossi on Imagination
- The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
- Jonathan Sacks on Imagination
- The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop on Imagination
- The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
- Sarah Fielding on Imagination
- The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
- William Shakespeare on Imagination
- The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali on Imagination
- The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
- Henry Ford on Imagination
- The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
- Henry George on Imagination
- The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson on Imagination
- The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
- Carol Ann Duffy on Imagination
- The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
- George Meredith on Imagination
- The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
- Alexander Chase on Imagination
- The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Imagination
- The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
- Tony Robbins on Imagination
- The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
- Matthew Sweet on Imagination
- The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
- Charles Kettering on Imagination
- The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- Jessamyn West on Imagination
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