Quotes and Sayings about Imagination

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Criminal Minds

Gaston: "How can you read this, there's no pictures?"
Belle: "Well, some people use their imagination."

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

Reading

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies," said Jojen. "The man who never reads lives only once."

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Dance with Dragons

Reading

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

Intelligence

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Doors are for people with no imagination.

Derek Landy in Skulduggery Pleasant - Der Gentleman mit der Feuerhand

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Paul Auster in The Brooklyn Follies

It's like we talked about, you control this world. Let the pain go, let the hurt go, let the guilt go. What you are imagining right now, that world you control. That place can be as real as any pain.

Dr. Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch

Haven't Luke Skywalker and Santa Claus affected your lives more than most real people in this room? I mean, whether Jesus is real or not, he's had a bigger impact on the world than any of us have. And the same could be said of Bugs Bunny... and Superman and Harry Potter. They've changed my life, changed the way I act on the Earth. Doesn't that make them kind of real?

Kyle Broflovski in South Park - Season 11 Episode 12

Luke Skywalker Superman Bugs Bunny Santa Claus

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Joanne K. Rowling

Magic

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

John Lennon

Myths & Legends

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney - Opening Speech - Disneyland California

Disneyland

I've heard tell, that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Everything great that happend in the world, happened first in someone's fantasy.

Astrid Lindgren

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

Clive Barker

Imagination… its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Rod Serling

I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.

Ernest Cline in Armada

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

Ernest Hemingway Joseph Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad Books Reading

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

Books Writing

...when I was a kid and rode in cars I used to imagine I held a big scythe in my hand and cut down all the trees and posts and even sliced every hill that zoomed past the window.

Jack Kerouac in On the Road

Children & Childhood

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Maurice Sendak

Children & Childhood

P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Craziness & Weirdness

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

Reality

What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?

Pascal Mercier in Night Train to Lisbon

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

John Muir

Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.

David Gale in The Life of David Gale

And I'm dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The world I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it

Mando Diao - Ochrasy

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky.

Banksy

Positive Quotes

Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying.

Terry Gilliam

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

Stephen King in The Shining

A lack of imagination is the death of science.

Johannes Kepler

Science

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

Roy Horn

Siegfried & Roy Borders

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

William Godwin

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

James Broughton

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

Benjamin Spock

Children & Childhood

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

Nancy Gibbs

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Lady Gaga

Reality

He, who's not scared, has no imagination.

Erich Kästner

Fear

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Architecture Air

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Neil Gaiman

Muscles

Book hangover: Inability to start a new book, because you're still living in the last book's world.

Books Reading

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Humor & Comedy

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