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.
Countless funds are spent on this. It's unthinkable to a normal person's imagination.
"In the end, it is the genius or tutelary spirit in imagination shall save humanity and earth.”
“The poem or literary work is work of language and work of imagination—both.”
Time destroys the figments of the imagination, while confirming the judgments of nature.
Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.
I have no imagination. I never plan a drawing, they just happen.
Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
"The imagination is one of the ways we understand the world."