This is a compilation of thoughts and quotes that I have found or written recently, as well as many that I've collected throughout the years. Most thoughts are posted randomly, as I feel inspired. A listing of quotes can be found alphabetically (check the 2008 and 2009 archives listing), or by source.

Feel free to suggest additions!


“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” – Proverbs 23:7

Monday, December 29, 2008

Imagination Quotes

1. You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

2. Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar, by saying ‘Just watch!’ - Unknown

3. Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

4. What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake

5. Imagination is seeing things, not as they are, but as they could be. Think about it: Everything that has ever been invented in the history of the world began as an idea in one person's mind. - Mac Anderson

6. Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder. - Unknown

7. Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

8. What is now proved was once imagined. - William Blake

9. All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. - C. H. Parkhurst

10. If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it. -William Arthur Ward

11. The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

12. Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. - Barbara Grizutti Harrison

13. When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

14. Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives, entwining our past and our future....a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself. - Shirley Temple Black

15. I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

16. All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody. - Steve Case

17. You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. - Denis Waitley

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