Power Of Imagination Quotes

Power Of Imagination Quotes by Chris Van Allsburg, Carl Jung, Lizzie West, W. Somerset Maugham, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and many others.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imag

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Jung
Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.
Lizzie West
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness – by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.
Novalis
The power of imagination is the ultimate creative power.. no doubt about that. While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand.. imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The imagination is man’s power over nature.
Wallace Stevens
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Nelson Mandela
We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
Ken Robinson
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
John Ruskin
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
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
If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.
Hiroko Sakai
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell Maltz
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
The power of miracle is the power of imagination.
Ludwig Feuerbach
The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
Albert Einstein
The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.
Napoleon Hill
Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.
Robert Smythe Hichens
Dreams are more powerful than facts.
Robert Fulghum
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.
Ursula K. Le Guin
It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
Akira Kurosawa
The power of imagination is infinite.
John Muir
All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.
Mason Cooley