Imagination - Quotes and Proverbs

Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try. Here are some proverbs and quotes about imagination.

Elf imagination — Elves are product of imagination.

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

Jane Austen
Source: Pride and Prejudice

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

Catherine Douzel

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.

Stephen Hawking

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Sylvia Earle

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

George Orwell
Source: 1984

Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

Stephen Hawking

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Norman Vincent Peale

Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

John Lennon

Imagine Italian food without tomatoes, Greek food without eggplant, Thai and Indonesian foods without peanut sauce, curries without chilies, hamburgers without French fries or ketchup, African food without cassava.

Bill Bryson
Source: At Home
Effect of the distribution of new world crops

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky

John Lennon

It rots the sense in the head!
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
he can no longer understand
a fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think--he only sees!

Roald Dahl
Source: Poem: Television

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose..... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.

J.B.S. Haldane

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

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

Steven Chu