Imagination quotes

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

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.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Few people have the imagination for reality.