Imagination Quotes

"Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise." "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality" "To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour" "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" "I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination" "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." "When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination." "Everything begins with an idea" "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." "Live out of your imagination, not your history." "I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real." "I want to do something crazy for a part—something I'd never even consider in real life" "I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box" "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination" "Expand the horizon of the possible until it includes the impossible" "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos" "In a dream you are never eighty" "Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to envision alternatives"