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The ability to form an image or create an unrealistic world to please the mind is what imagination means to most of us. Since, the human mind can never be restrained imagination does not have any boundaries, and is free of any restrictions. Also considered as a form of day dreaming it gives you the power to experience and create a world just as you see it. Imagination is not time bound and hence lets you explore the past and future. Instead of disregarding imagination as a waste of time it should be considered as a boon to open up the creative side. Read further to know more on the fascinating imagination quotations and sayings.

Ronald Reagan

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Greatness Growth Intelligence
Ronald Reagan
Allison Mack

Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.

Allison Mack
Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso
Tom Stoppard

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

Art
Tom Stoppard
Joe Rogan

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

Sports
Joe Rogan

On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.

People Police
Bobby Seale
Walt Disney

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Hope
Walt Disney
William Arthur Ward

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

Dreams
William Arthur Ward
Robin Williams

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Psychosis
Robin Williams
Mark Ruffalo

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

School
Mark Ruffalo
Quincy Jones

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Good World
Quincy Jones
Simone Weil

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Life
Simone Weil
Judy Garland

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Death Time Dreams
Judy Garland
Tim Curry

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

Childhood
Tim Curry
Steven Spielberg

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Reality
Steven Spielberg
Catherine the Great

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Greatness
Catherine the Great
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Love Soul Intelligence
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Dreams
Gloria Steinem
Marcel Proust

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Women
Marcel Proust
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Reality
John Lennon
Katy Perry

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Things
Katy Perry
Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Love Nature
Voltaire
Thomas Moore

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

Observation Thinking Information Ideas
Thomas Moore
Eudora Welty

To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

Assumptions Belief Thinking Work
Eudora Welty
Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Library
Jorge Luis Borges
Al Gore

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

World Environment
Al Gore
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Architecture
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel was one of them. I was just very inspired by being able to portray somebody of that sort. He's a man of tremendous energy and excitement about discovery.

Time
Christopher Lloyd
Diana Rigg

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

Good Life
Diana Rigg
Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Night
Edgar Allan Poe
Dr. Seuss

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Dr. Seuss
Joseph Conrad

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.

Art Truth Life
Joseph Conrad
Thomas Hobbes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

Men Blame Confidential Disgrace
Thomas Hobbes
B. R. Ambedkar

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Men
B. R. Ambedkar
Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Wish
Julius Caesar
Wallace Stevens

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Wallace Stevens
Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Intelligence Knowledge
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Debt Science
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Albert Einstein

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

Logic
Albert Einstein

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.

Economics World
Julian Assange
Samuel Johnson

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Travelling Reality Thinking
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Moore

True change takes place in the imagination.

Inspiration Motivation Advice Change
Thomas Moore
Anatole France

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Nothing
Anatole France
Helen Rowland

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Love I Love You Relationship Romance
Helen Rowland

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

Body Earth
Zooey Deschanel
Rashida Jones

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

Best Character
Rashida Jones
Adam Smith

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Facts
Adam Smith
Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Reality
Anais Nin
Anya Taylor-Joy

I have an active imagination.

Anya Taylor-Joy
Leonardo da Vinci

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Dreams
Leonardo da Vinci
Edgar Allan Poe

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Poetry Fear Religion
Edgar Allan Poe
Tyler, The Creator

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

Kids
Tyler, The Creator
Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Business
Henry Ford
Eudora Welty

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Authors Being Yourself People Personality
Eudora Welty
Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Art World
Henry David Thoreau
Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Mind
Norman Vincent Peale
Christian Bale

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

Shoes
Christian Bale
Dr. Seuss

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss
Napolean Hill

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Reality
Napolean Hill
Walt Disney

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

World
Walt Disney
Matt Bomer

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

Time
Matt Bomer
Carl Jung

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Play Debt
Carl Jung

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

Money
Michael Keaton
George Carlin

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

Old Age People Viewpoint Thinking
George Carlin
Muhammad Ali

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali
Steven Spielberg

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

Dreams
Steven Spielberg
Walt Disney

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Things
Walt Disney

I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.

Love World
Christopher Lloyd
Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Money People Greatness
Alan Watts
Wallace Stevens

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Life Mind
Wallace Stevens
Lily James

It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

Lily James
George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people have the imagination for reality.

People Reality
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wallace Stevens

The imagination is man's power over nature.

Nature Power
Wallace Stevens
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.

World Home
Shawn Mendes
Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Humor
Francis Bacon
Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Life Order
Vladimir Nabokov
Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Magic
Norman Vincent Peale
Joseph Addison

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Curiosity Soul
Joseph Addison

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.

Power Innovation
J. K. Rowling
Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso
John Adams

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Country
John Adams
Vladimir Nabokov

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov
Alice Walker

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Love Fall
Alice Walker
Paul Ryan

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Ideas
Paul Ryan

There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.

Armie Hammer
Chris Hemsworth

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

Greatness
Chris Hemsworth
Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Genius Dreams
Vladimir Nabokov
Elie Wiesel

Some stories are true that never happened.

Elie Wiesel
H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Intelligence Love
H. L. Mencken

To be in a show like 'Miranda' that captures everyone's imagination is amazing, but it's hard when people can't see beyond that. I started travelling to North America because 'Miranda' was so popular in the U.K.; I always knew I wanted to challenge myself and not go for the obvious roles.

People
Tom Ellis
Jimi Hendrix

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Science Rest
Jimi Hendrix
Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Luxury
Charlie Chaplin
Vincent Van Gogh

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.

People Work
Kevin Smith
Isaac Newton

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Understanding
Isaac Newton
Ernest Hemingway

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Ability
Ernest Hemingway
Chuck Palahniuk

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Purpose Training Faith
Chuck Palahniuk