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Quotes about imagination, where every invention begins. This hand-picked collection brings together 25 of the finest imagination quotes ever written — from Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

— Immanuel Kant

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

— Albert Einstein

The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

— Mark Twain

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

— Dr. Seuss

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream — he awoke and found it true.

— John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

— John Keats

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

— Maya Angelou

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

— John Lennon

The colour of springtime is in the flowers; the colour of winter is in the imagination.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.

— Walt Disney

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Albert Einstein

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

— Thomas Edison

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination.

— Plato

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

— Albert Einstein

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

— Tony Robbins

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

— Mark Twain

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

— John Keats

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

Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.

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