Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. – L. Frank Baum
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. – Kerry Thornley
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. – Alexander Chase
There are no shortcuts in life – only those we imagine. – Frank Leahy
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. – Plato
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. – Albert Einstein
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. – Albert Einstein
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning. – C. S. Lewis
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. – Oscar Wilde
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. – Napoleon Hill
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo
First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. – Napoleon Hill
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive. – Henry David Thoreau
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. – Henry David Thoreau
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. – Norman Vincent Peale