Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.

- Shigenori Kameoka

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

- James Allen

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

- John Muir

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

- Seneca

The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention.

- Francis Bacon

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

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

- Maya Angelou

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

- Walter Lippmann

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

- James Branch Cabell

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable -- tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

- John Kerry

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

- Albert Einstein

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

- Blaise Pascal



Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall



I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

- Robert Fulghum



Nothing happens unless first we dream.

- Carl Sandburg



Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

- Arnold Toynbee



Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

- Denise Levertov



Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

- Magdalena Abakanowicz



Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

- Gloria Steinem



It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

- Baruch Spinoza



'Tis vast—as our Capacity—
As fair—as our idea—
To Him of adequate desire
No further 'tis, than Here—

- Emily Dickinson



The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—

- Emily Dickinson



The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

- Carl Sagan



Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one.

- John Lennon



Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge



Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

- Lin Yutang



Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

from The Quest For Certainty

- John Dewey



You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

- George Bernard Shaw



Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

- John Lennon



The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

- Henry David Thoreau