I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.”
“Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.”
“Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“Imagination is the power to overcome the simplicity of observation”
“Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.”
Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
“Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.”
“Imagination is the readily available, no-cost communicator that translates emotion into form for the mind to comprehend and use.”
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Source: The Selected Poems of William Blake
“Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“Imagination is the rebellion of the heart.”
“Imagination is the research laboratory of discovery.”
“Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.”
Source: The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
“Imagination is the sacred intuition.”
“Imagination is the seed of reality.”
“Imagination is the shortest path to truth.”
“Imagination is the source of all human achievement.”
“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.”
“Imagination is the spark that ignites the fire of creativity.”
“Imagination is the substance that creates life.”
Source: Diary of a Psychic: Shattering the Myths
“Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.”
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”
“Imagination is the vessel that carries us beyond the shores of the possible.”
“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”
Source: Sexus
“Imagination is the weapon to fight off an impossibility.”
Source: On Resistism
“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”
“Imagination is the will of things. . . .”
Source: The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
“Imagination is the wonder of the wise.”
“Imagination (is) to building a police case what mortar is to a bricklayer.”
“Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Imagination is to see the whole in the parts, rather than seeing the parts as the whole.”
“Imagination is usually regarded as a synonym for the unreal. Yet is true imagination healthful and real, no more likely to mislead than the coarse senses. Indeed, the power of imagination makes us infinite.”
Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir
“Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.”
“Imagination is vital to precautionary judgement.”
“Imagination is war against the impossible.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“Imagination is what gives rise to reality”
Source: Realm of Wonders
“Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.”
“Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.”
“Imagination is your bioenergy shapeshifting into versions of reality that don't exist locally.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Imagination is your invisible power to produce all things powerful.”
“Imagination is your invisible power which is ridiculously powerful.”
“Imagination
***
It is not only hard
However, it hurts too, when
Imagination is visible,
Its real character is not
One can feel its appearance
That embraces the truth
And the reality of it
To be sure.”
“Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.”
“Imagination labors best in distant fields.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress
“Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.”
Source: Human Happiness
“Imagination makes cowards of us all.”
“Imagination makes the world
and all the wonders in it.
The seed of every dream unfurls
as you with love begin it!”
“Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.”
“Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity - creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.”
“Imagination means nothing without doing.”