Imagination Quotes

“Every book is a world.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
― Muhammed Ali

“The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think; it is the quality thought that makes the difference - not just the quality of logical thinking, but of imaginative thinking. And our greatest thinkers, those who have radically changed our world, have always arrived at their truths by dreaming them; they are first fantasized, and only then subjected to proof.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.”
― Edward Albee

“There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.”
― A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly

“If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one’s own imagination.”
― Meshack Asare

“correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.”
― Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

“Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Imagination should be used, not to escape reality, but to create it.”
― Collin Wilson

“Imagination is divine. Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

“I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

“We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.”
― H.G. Wells

“Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.”
― Orrin Woodward

“Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.”
― Sam Wineburg

“Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest
possible things are imaginary.”
― Paul Lockhart

“The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals”
― John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

“The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. “Dracula” and “The Fly” may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.”
― Joe Hill

“The power of imagination is a miracle.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!

Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise.”
― Marilynn Dawson

“Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.”
― Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

“Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.”
― Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past

“Imagination is destination.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream.”
― Amaka Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“You can't achieve what you can't imagine being done”
― A.M.M Alusi

“Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books