Imagination Quotes

Imagination is where every invention, artwork, and act of rebellion started. These quotes celebrate the ability to see what does not yet exist and the courage it takes to bring it into the world, even when people call you crazy.

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

Francis Bacon

More Imagination Quotes

“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”

Napoleon Hill

“Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”

Vladimir Nabokov

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”

e. e. cummings

“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.”

Mike Krzyzewski

“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”

Jimi Hendrix

“Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.”

Lily Tomlin

“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.”

Ian Mcewan

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”

Muhammad Ali

“I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.”

Steven Patrick Morrissey

“It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.”

Jack Nicholson

“The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

Noam Chomsky

“I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.”

Bruce Springsteen

“A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.”

Mo Rocca

“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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