Imagination quotes

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Some stories are true that never happened.