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

—Carl Sagan

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

—Gloria Steinem

The empires of the future are empires of the mind.

—Winston Churchill

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

—Lauren Bacall

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

 —Albert Einstein

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

—Carl Jung

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently.

—Ira Erwin

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

—Jules de Gaultier

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

 —Louis Aragon

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

—G.K. Chesterton

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than the young.

—W. Somerset Maugham

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.

—Shunryu Suzuki

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

—Mark Twain

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity ... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

—William Blake