Top 200 Imagination Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen.”

— Stephen Hawking

152. “The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

153. “Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky’s the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let’s dance.”

— Tom Hiddleston

154. “Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.”

— Neville Goddard

155. “The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.”

— Marilyn Manson

156. “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”

— Rumi

157. “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

— Albert Einstein

158. “Command any idea to clothe itself in form.”

— Neville Goddard

159. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

160. “I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

— Walt Disney

161. “I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.”

— Nikola Tesla

162. “Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.”

— Colin Wilson

163. “Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”

— Neil Gaiman

164. “I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.”

— Neville Goddard

165. “Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by ‘reality’ or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

166. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

— George Orwell

167. “Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today...”

— John Lennon

168. “Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”

— Amelia Earhart

169. “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”

— Plato

170. “Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”

— Denis Waitley

171. “The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.”

— Stephen King

172. “You’re never given a dream without the power to make it true.”

— Richard Bach

173. “Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”

— Helen Keller

174. “Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.”

— Immanuel Kant

175. “I dwell in possibility.”

— Emily Dickinson

176. “Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.”

— Esther Hicks

177. “That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”

— Walt Disney

178. “To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.”

— Thomas A. Edison

179. “Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

— Stephen King

180. “The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.”

— William Blake

181. “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

— Ray Bradbury

182. “You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”

— Denis Waitley

183. “For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.”

— Jason Silva

184. “Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

185. “I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.”

— Steven Wright

186. “I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.”

— Chris Brown

187. “The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.”

— Barack Obama

188. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”

— Robert H. Schuller

189. “The best vision is insight.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

190. “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

— Napoleon Hill

191. “We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

— Maria Montessori

192. “Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.”

— Walt Disney

193. “Nature has no outline. Imagination has.”

— William Blake

194. “The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!”

— James Joyce

195. “Don’t worry about how you ‘should’ draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.”

— Tim Burton

196. “The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.”

— George MacKay

197. “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”

— Rumi

198. “If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

— Zig Ziglar

199. “Everything that’s coming into your life, you are attracting into your life. And it’s attracted to you by virtue of the images you’re holding in your mind. It’s what you’re thinking. Whatever is going on in your mind you are attracting to you!”

— Bob Proctor

200. “You're only given a little spark of madness. Don't lose it.”

— Robin Williams