3,418 Quotes About Imagination

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

It is just my imagination that flies,While she is wrapped up in her bedsheetslike a nest.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.

What year is it in your imagination?

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.