Imagination Quotes

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Knowledge

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Art, Motivation

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, BookBaby

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• The creative adult is the child who has survived.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Creativity, Creative

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “No Time to Spare: Thinking about what Matters”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

  George William Curtis

  Creativity, Journey, Intuition

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I.”, p.8

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• Live out of your imagination, not your history.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  Stephen R. Covey (1999). “Choice: Choosing the Proactive Life You Want to Live”, Franklincovey

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "What Is Intelligence?" by Max Miller, bigthink.com.

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• We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Adults

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• 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

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• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

  George Scialabba

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Knowledge

  "János : The Story of a Doctor" by János Plesch, translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1947.

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• Art is the sex of the imagination.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Sex, Legislature

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.7, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Reality, Enough

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• The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

  Jim Rohn

  Knowledge, Limits, Humans

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 16, 2015

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• Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Obstacles, Power Of Positive Thinking, Permit

  Norman Vincent Peale (2012). “The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People”, p.13, Random House

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• Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want.

  Esther Hicks

  Worry, Want, Manifestation

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• It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Powerful, Writing, Creativity

  "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co., (p. 164), 1938.

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• The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

  Derek Walcott

  Special, Language, Property

  "Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Caribbean Poet, Dies at 87". The Paris Review Interview, www.latimes.com. March 17, 2017.

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