Imagination Quotes (112) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming images and sensations when they are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental faculty through which people make sense of the world and it also plays a key role in the learning process.
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“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 tranformative and revelatory capacity it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
~ J.K. Rowling
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Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.
~ Rob Brezsny
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
~ Mohammad Ali
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The future you see is the future you get.
~ Robert G. Allen
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can transform one million realities.
~ Maya Angelou
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The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.
~ Frank Barron
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
~ William Blake
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Before you can do something that you’ve never done before, you have to imagine it’s possible.
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
~ Adele Brookman
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Live out of your imagination instead of your memory.
~ Les Brown
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
~ Steven Covey
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
~ Dale Carnegie
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You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
~ Winston Churchill
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
~ Stephen R. Covey
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
~ Marquis de Sade
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The source of genius is imagination alone.
~ Eugene Delacroix
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
~ John Dewey
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The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination.
~ Emily Dickenson
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You need a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
~ Annie Dillard
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Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
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To invent you need a goal, imagination, and a pile of junk.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
~ Albert Einstein
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
~ Albert Einstein
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
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Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
~ Albert Einstein
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
~ Albert Einstein
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science.
~ Albert Einstein
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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.
~ Albert Einstein
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Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
~ Albert Einstein
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Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air of your imagination.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our imagination is boundless. In a split second we can imagine an incredible number of things. To give form to what is imagined takes great creative powers. That's why I believe creativity is giving form to imagination.
~ Fereydoon Family
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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
~ Bernice FitzGibbon
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The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things…it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
~ Steve Forbes
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
~ Anatole France
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Your ability to act on your imagination is going to be so decisive in driving your future and the standard of living in your country. So the school, the state, the country that empowers, nurtures, enables imagination among its students and citizens, that's who's going to be the winner.
~ Friedman, Thomas L.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
~ Robert Fulghum
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~ Buckminster Fuller
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Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
~ Frank Gaines
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We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.
~ Shakti Gawain
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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
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Creativity is the ideas expressed after summoning everything you've learned and disregarding everything you know. It's the ability to get out of the way of one's originality and imagination.
~ Dan Greenberger
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The great thing about the dilemma we’re in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do…There isn’t a single thing that doesn’t require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.
~ Paul Hawken
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Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).
~ Abraham-Hicks
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You are a creator. You create with your every thought…anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.
~ Abraham-Hicks
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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.
~ Napoleon Hill
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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.
~ Napoleon Hill
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
~ Edward Hopper
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
~ Henry James
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Intuition is a way of knowing about the world through insight and exercising one's imagination.
~ Valerie Janesick
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Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
~ Mae Jemison
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
~ Carl Jung
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The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
~ Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
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There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.
~ Dennis Kimbro
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
~ Anne Lamott
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It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
~ Barry Lopez
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You can’t do it unless you imagine it.
~ George Lucas
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A creative block is the wall we erect to ward off the anxiety we suppose we'll experince if we sit down to work.
~ Eric Maisel
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
~ Orison S. Marden
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
~ Rollo May
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
~ Carson McSullers
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~ H.L. Mencken
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I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
~ Duane Michals
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Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul.
~ Bruce L. Moon
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Relief from boredom, anxiety, depression, and addictions are the pleasant side effects of engaging the imagination, and of restoring the soul.
~ Bruce L. Moon
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~ John Muir
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What is creativity? I define creativity as the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of a creative idea. If you have ideas, but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative.
~ Linda Naiman
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Creativity is imagining possibilities and making them real.
~ Marta Davidovich Ockuly
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Creativity is our human capacity to imagine and express new possibilities.
~ Marta Davidovich Ockuly
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Creativity is the process of expressing and applying imagination.
~ Marta Davidovich Ockuly
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For every negative imagining (worry thought), practice positive pretending (imagining the most wonderful outcome).
~ Marta Davidovich Ockuly
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Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
~ Mary Oliver
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Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.
~ Alex Osborn
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Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
~ Jamie Paolinetti
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Everything you can imagine is real.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Everything in life is writable if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.
~ Sylvia Plath
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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.
~ Plato
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It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
~ Catherine Ponder
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By picturing ourselves creating at our highest levels, imagining the finished product and the deep joy that comes from creating, we move closer to our dreams. Visualizing the end result from our creative effort helps us achieve it.
~ Salli Rasberry
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We humans are not creatures of instinct who all build our nests in the same way. Throughout our day, whether at home or at work, we humans adapt and innovate, improvise flexibly, at times acting from our 'gut feelings', at times from options we imagine and systematically try out, one after the other. Our creativity may involve anything from making breakfast to solving a major conflict with one's boss.
~ Ruth Richards
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Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
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Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
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Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.
~ Sir Ken Robinson
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The world of reality has its bounds, the world of imagination is boundless.
~ Rousseau
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Let go and trust; allow inspiration and imagination to lead the way…beyond the limitations of what the mind knows.
~ Linda Saccoccio
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The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. This spirit of creative response aligns with the capacity to exercise moral imagination and to see ethical problems in a new light. To be sure, our most fundamental ethical values -- values such as honesty, avoiding doing harm, keeping commitments -- are grounded in timeless traditions and are not likely to be soon abandoned. But it is in the application of these ethical values to emerging, unique situations, where moral imagination and the entrepreneurial spirit can make a decisive difference.
~ David Schmidt
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A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
~ Charles M. Schwab
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Creativity is…seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
~ Michele Shea
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
~ Barbara Sher
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
~ Gloria Steinem
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
~ Henri B. Stendhal
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Your knowledge has limits but your imagination does not.
~ Geraint Straker
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
~ Brian Tracy
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You cannot depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
~ Mark Twain
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Imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
~ Brenda Ueland
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Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
~ Voltaire
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
~ Denis Waitley
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from lack of imagination.
~ Oscar Wilde
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Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.
~ Marianne Williamson
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We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened?
~ Marianne Williamson
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