imagination Quotes

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Imagination rules the world.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.