“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
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.
“There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.”
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”
“I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.”
“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
“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.”
“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
“We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.”
“A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.”
“For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.”
“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.”