Quotes about Imagination
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.
- JRR Tolkien
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
- Napoleon Hill
Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Everything begins with an idea.
- Earl Nightingale
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.
- Charles Colson
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
- Pablo Picasso
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- William Faulkner
Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
- William Faulkner
If a story is in you, it has to come out.
- William Faulkner
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
- William Hazlitt