Top 200 Imagination Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You can make anything by writing.”

— C. S. Lewis

102. “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”

— Akira Kurosawa

103. “The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”

— Terence McKenna

104. “The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

105. “When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.”

— Denis Waitley

106. “What is now proved was once only imagined.”

— William Blake

107. “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

108. “Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard.”

— Neville Goddard

109. “I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

— J.K. Rowling

110. “Children see magic because they look for it.”

— Christopher Moore

111. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”

— Ray Bradbury

112. “There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

— Robert F. Kennedy

113. “For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.”

— J.K. Rowling

114. “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

115. “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

— Dr. Seuss

116. “The subconscious mind cannot tell the difference between what’s real and what’s imagined.”

— Bob Proctor

117. “When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.”

— Joseph Murphy

118. “Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go Only as deep as I look can I see Only as much as I dream can I be.”

— Karen Ravn

119. “Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”

— Mae Jemison

120. “Let’s build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.”

— Bob Ross

121. “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

— Sylvia Plath

122. “Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”

— Napoleon Hill

123. “We must dream our way.”

— Pablo Neruda

124. “It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.”

— Daymond John

125. “Nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.”

— Rhonda Byrne

126. “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”

— Lewis Carroll

127. “To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.”

— Thomas A. Edison

128. “When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.”

— Susan Sarandon

129. “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

— Victor Hugo

130. “The brain is wider than the sky.”

— Emily Dickinson

131. “Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.”

— Simon Sinek

132. “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear.”

— William Shakespeare

133. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

— Pablo Picasso

134. “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

— James Allen

135. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.”

— Napoleon Hill

136. “Shut your eyes and see.”

— James Joyce

137. “I don’t want realism. I want magic!”

— Tennessee Williams

138. “Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

— Bertrand Russell

139. “Reality is for people that lack imagination.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

140. “Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.”

— Bob Dylan

141. “Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.”

— Neville Goddard

142. “The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

143. “All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”

— Jack Kerouac

144. “The future you see is the future you get.”

— Robert G. Allen

145. “All I have in my life is my imagination.”

— Woody Allen

146. “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”

— Michael Phelps

147. “Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.”

— C.G. Jung

148. “I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality.”

— Conor McGregor

149. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

— Oscar Wilde

150. “Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What’s the point of being realistic? I’m going to do it. It’s done. It’s already done. The second I decide it’s done, it’s already done.”

— Will Smith