3,418 Quotes About Imagination

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

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.