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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

Connolly, Cyril | Imagination

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert | Imagination

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Keats, John | Imagination

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joubert, Joseph | Imagination

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies we do.

Dougray Scott | Imagination

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Jerry Gillies | Imagination

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Henri Bergson | Imagination

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

Maimonides | Imagination

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

Renny Harlin | Imagination

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

Peter Shaffer | Imagination

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Azar Nafisi | Imagination

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

Charles de Gaulle | Imagination

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Peter Mullan | Imagination

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.

Rita Dove | Imagination

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Jennifer Lopez | Imagination

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Denis Waitley | Imagination

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

Danny Boyle | Imagination

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain | Imagination

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera | Imagination

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Ishmael Reed | Imagination

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Jack Prelutsky | Imagination

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Imagination

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

Marcello Mastroianni | Imagination

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung | Imagination

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Gloria Steinem | Imagination

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

Rita Dove | Imagination

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Imagination

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci | Imagination

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Frank Rich | Imagination

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Stephen King | Imagination

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Arthur Conan Doyle | Imagination

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Susan Sarandon | Imagination

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

Olivia Thirlby | Imagination

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue | Imagination

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Tim Berners Lee | Imagination

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Phylicia Rashad | Imagination

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Shia LaBeouf | Imagination

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Kerry Thornley | Imagination

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

John Keats | Imagination

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

Doris Lessing | Imagination

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Julianna Baggott | Imagination

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie | Imagination

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Deepak Chopra | Imagination

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Samuel Johnson | Imagination

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Ashley Judd | Imagination

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

Rashida Jones | Imagination

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Terry Brooks | Imagination

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating | Imagination

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Wallace Stevens | Imagination

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Anne Sullivan Macy | Imagination

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Terry Brooks | Imagination

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Maria Montessori | Imagination

We especially need imagination in science.

Maria Mitchell | Imagination

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland | Imagination

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Ray Bradbury | Imagination

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.

Thomas Merton | Imagination

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Imagination

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jacob Bronowski | Imagination

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Richard Le Gallienne | Imagination

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux | Imagination

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

Bill Moyers | Imagination

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day | Imagination

Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.

Emmitt Smith | Imagination

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier | Imagination

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Ludwig Wittgenstein | Imagination

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Mark Haddon | Imagination

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Arthur Keith | Imagination

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

Gary Ross | Imagination

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

Derek Jacobi | Imagination

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Marquis de Sade | Imagination

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

Duane Michals | Imagination

True change takes place in the imagination.

Thomas Moore | Imagination

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Cyril Connolly | Imagination

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Karen Armstrong | Imagination

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs | Imagination

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Isaac D'Israeli | Imagination

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Thomas Traherne | Imagination

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan | Imagination

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Wallace Stevens | Imagination

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein | Imagination

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Juliette Gordon Low | Imagination

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Frank Auerbach | Imagination

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Quintilian | Imagination

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.

Michael Haneke | Imagination

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison | Imagination

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

Anatole France | Imagination

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Lord Chesterfield | Imagination

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

Eric Alterman | Imagination

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe | Imagination

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

Vincent Van Gogh | Imagination

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau | Imagination

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith | Imagination

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss | Imagination

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Toby Jones | Imagination

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

Margaret Mahy | Imagination

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

Francis Bacon | Imagination

There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.

Jane Campion | Imagination

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

Geraldine Brooks | Imagination

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 | Imagination

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain | Imagination