Quotes About Imagination

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

— Max Eastman

You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

— Mark Twain

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

— Jane Austen

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

— John Lyly

If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.

— Laurence J. Peter

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

— W. Somerset Maugham

What is now proved was once only imagined.

— William Blake

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets.  Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

— Tom Stoppard

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

— John Pfeiffer

Dare to be naive.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

— John Ray