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.

“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

More Imagination Quotes

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

Carl Sagan

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

John Muir

“Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”

Ernest Hemingway

“Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.”

Rashida Jones

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

George S. Patton

“Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.”

Gary Ross

“Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.”

Blaise Pascal

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”

e. e. cummings

“I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.”

Michael D. Higgins

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

Jimi Hendrix

“A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

Jane Austen

“There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.”

Geraldine Brooks

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