Imagination
Christopher Morley on Imagination
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
Lewis Carroll on Memory
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.”
William Shakespeare on Imagination
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
Leonard Bernstein on Inspiration
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”
Albert Einstein on Wisdom at Solving Problems
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Pablo Picasso on Art
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
John Russell on Sanity
“Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.”
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Pablo Picasso on Imagination
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Edgar Allan Poe on Dreams
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Albert Einstein on Logic and Imagination
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved – if it can be achieved at all – within the next few hundred years.”
Sir Arthur Eddington on the Universe
“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.”
H. L. Mencken on Imagination
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”
Albert Einstein on Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Thomas A. Edison
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Imagination
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
Bertrand Russell on Society
“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.”
Tom Stoppard on Art & Imagination
“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Ideas
“When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan on Imagination
“He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Science
“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
Hector Berlioz on Ideas
“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”
L. Frank Baum on Imagination
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
Emile Chartier on Ideas
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.”