Imagination quotes

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...' And then do it.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

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.

Imagination rules the world.