120+ Imagination Quotes to Inspire Innovative Thinking

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ― Oscar Wilde

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ―Mark Twain

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

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

True change cannot be made if it is bound by laws and limitations, predictions, and imagination. ― Itachi Uchiha

There is nothing worse than imagination without taste. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. ― Seneca

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. ― Bertrand Russell

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. ― Pablo Picasso

Imagination means nothing without doing. ― Charlie Chaplin

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any of which, can supply the lack of the others. ― William Faulkner

Being a practiced liar doesn’t mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all; it’s that which gives their lies such wide-eyed conviction.

Imagination allows us to escape predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. – John Lennon

It’s delightful when your imagination comes true, isn’t it?

When god takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.

Good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people. ― Patricia Highsmith

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

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. ― George Eliot

The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose but queerer than we can suppose.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. ― Mark Twain

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ― Albert Einstein

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Imagination is the cornerstone of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God. ― Sidney Sheldon

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.  ― J.K. Rowling

Hate is a lack of imagination. ― Graham Greene

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun. – Taylor Swift

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

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. ― Philip José Farmer

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats… Maybe cause I’m a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I’m resting. ― Kendrick Lamar

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. – Confucius

Imagination is the power of life. It gives you the ability to create and shape your reality.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination. ― Wayne Dyer

Thus the man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability. ― Maxwell Maltz

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do. ― RuPaul

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. – Tony Robbins

Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, and your hard work to change the world. – Barack Obama

Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.