Imagination

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

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

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.

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

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!

Methinks it is like a weasel.

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.

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

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.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

What would the world look like if it were different?

What you can imagine depends on what you know.