Imagination quotes

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

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

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

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

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

An idea is salvation by imagination.