Mark Twain Quotes About Imagination

• Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Reality, Imagination

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

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

• When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

  Mark Twain

  Ocean, Creativity, Sleep

  Mark Twain (2011). “Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”, p.320, NewSouth Books

• Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Thinking, Imagination

• Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

  Mark Twain

  Imagination, Earth, Wonder

• Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

  Mark Twain

  Health, Imagination, Disease

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.4, Courier Corporation

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Eye, Men

• Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

  Mark Twain

  Imagination, Atheism, Demonstration

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.34, St. Martin's Press

• Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Blessed, Imagination

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

• Man - a figment of God's imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Imagination, Figments

• No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Children, Growing Up

• We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Lying, Vanity

• Imagination labors best in distant fields.

  Mark Twain

  Imagination, Fields, Labor

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.527

• You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Silly, Should Have

  Mark Twain (2014). “The Mysterious Stranger: and Other Stories”, p.180, Diderot Publishing

You May Also Like:

Charles Dickens

Ernest Hemingway

Oscar Wilde

Edgar Allan Poe

Jack London

Hal Holbrook

William Faulkner