Browsing Topic Best Creative Imagination Quotes

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.

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

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Well, that’s why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry…fear…is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

Each of us has an Aladdin’s Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

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

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers–if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.

The possible’s slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem.

Without … the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread – without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.