Imagination Quotes
Wallace Stevens has the most entries, then Shakespeare, Skye Jethani, the Filipino poet Gémino Abad and Joseph Joubert. The line everyone wants is Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” which comes from a 1929 interview with George Sylvester Viereck, where he says he is enough of an artist to draw freely upon it. Emerson, in Letters and Social Aims (1876), says science does not know its debt to imagination, and Thoreau, in 1849, calls the world canvas to our imaginations.
Three entries are flagged. The line about computers being fast, accurate and stupid, humans slow, inaccurate and brilliant, is credited to Einstein and marked misattributed. Bacon is credited with a line on imagination and a sense of humor, and Poe with a remark about religion, both disputed; the notes put the Poe remark in a 1901 biography that has been much criticized.
What a glorious gift is imagination, and what satisfaction it affords!
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.
A fact will often show poor and plain in contrast to the leapings of imagination.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
I hope it’s a meeting point of imagination, reconciliation and a place to foster peace.