I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.
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 never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
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 most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
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.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?