Famous Quotes

"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Imagination

More quotes about Imagination

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

  Dr. Seuss on Imagination

• "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

  Sun Tzu on Imagination

More quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

• "A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

• "As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life."

• "To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

• "In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."