Imagination Quotes
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
American actress
Imagination - that's the future for us.
Jan Brett
American illustrator and writer of children's picture books
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
Dolly Parton
American singer-songwriter
Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
American short story writer
Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
Hilary Mantel
British writer
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Former Emperor of the French
Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.
Maria Konnikova
Russian-American writer
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole
Writer
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
Swiss psychiatrist
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
American writer
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 transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling
British author
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
Mary Wesley
Novelist
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
Guy Davenport
American writer
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale
American clergyman
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
George William Curtis
American writer
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
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
American author
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Gilbert Parker
Canadian novelist
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
George Henry Lewes
Philosopher
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