Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

16884 quotes

S
"The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
S
"Imagination is more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
J
"I cannot exist without poetry, without eternal objects of sense."
John Keats
J
"I wish the Gene of boundless fancying was to be found in my constitution."
John Keats
J
"The Imagination may be compared to Adam's dream; it is to me a convincing creative principle."
John Keats
J
"I can at any time Phantasize upon any Subject."
John Keats
J
"Worlds without number I suppose there are."
John Milton
"The imagination is the beginning of creation."
William Wordsworth
W
"There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
William Shakespeare
L
"The power of the mind is unlimited; it is we who limit it."
Lord Byron
S
"The mind of a man is capable of anything because everything is in it."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
S
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
J
"To imagine is to possess the keys to creation."
John Milton
J
"Imagination is the only real boundary humans possess."
John Milton
J
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
John Keats
J
"It keeps eternally whispering suggestions to follow this path or that path."
John Keats
J
"In dreaming, the poet soars beyond mortal limitations."
John Keats
W
"We are made of such stuff that dreams are made of"
William Shakespeare
L
"The imagination is the first capacity that must awaken in mankind."
Lord Byron
D
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Dante Alighieri
D
"The imaginative mind creates worlds that reality cannot contain."
Dante Alighieri
"The poet's eye sees in all things the potential for wonder and revelation."
William Wordsworth
"The imagination is more powerful than knowledge; it is the eye of the soul."
William Wordsworth
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Geoffrey Chaucer
J
"There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the pleasures of the imagination."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
J
"What hath Night to do with Sleep?"
John Milton
O
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Ovid
V
"Where reason fails, wonders begin."
Virgil
D
"All knowledge begins with wonder."
Dante Alighieri
D
"Imagination is the cradle of all innovation."
Dante Alighieri