Imagine - Imagination Quotes

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky – fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind’s will.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.