The best Quotes and Sayings about Imagination

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

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

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

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

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

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

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

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Doors are for people with no imagination.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

...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.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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.

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?

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

There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.

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

How can you research a made-up world? You can't, really.

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

Stop using your imagination to limit yourself!

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.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.

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

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.

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

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