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