Imagination Quotes

The man of imagination and no culture has wings without feet. Joseph Joubert

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. Albert Einstein

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Havelock Ellis

Man lives by imagination. Havelock Ellis

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. Tom Stoppard

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. John Ruskin

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall

Man consists of body, mind and imagination. His body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable. John Masefield

Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Joseph Conrad

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. Ursula Le Guin

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. Luis Bunuel

It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination. Louise J Kaplan

The imagination is the spur of delights…all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? Marquis de Sade

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. Marquis de Sade

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

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle