"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
— Terry Pratchett

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
— Saul Bellow

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
— John Lennon

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere."
— Carl Sagan

"It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories; these castles are our memories and inventiveness made tangible. So part of us believes that when the tide starts coming in, we won't really have lost anything, because actually only a symbol of it was there in the sand. Another part of us thinks we'll figure out a way to divert the ocean. This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
— John Keats

"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning."
— Gloria Steinem

"Imgination rules the world"
— Napoleon Bonaparte

"Poetry = Anger x Imagination"
— Sherman Alexie

"A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it to be God."
— Sidney Sheldon

"We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own."
— Brian Andreas

"An idea is salvation by imagination"
— Frank Lloyd Wright

"Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity."
— Vladimir Nabokov

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
— Jonathan Swift

"Imagination is Everything!"
— Termina Ashton

"imagination is the highest kite than one can fly"
— Lauren Bacall

"Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create."
— Maria Montessori

"Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but don’t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change. "
— Paul Rogat Loeb (The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear)

"The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
— Oscar Wilde

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. "
— John Dewey (The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge And Action)

"When you're feeling lonely
and no one is around
Remember to look inside yourself
and a best friend will be found"
— Stephen Cosgrove (Maynard's Mermaid)

"Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

"Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses."
— William Carlos Williams (Kora In Hell: Improvisations)

"That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence."
— Tom Robbins