Quotes about Imagination

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one

Even in Christendom the average churchgoer is fully satisfied if he learns by rote a few of the elementary principles of religion. By so doing he comforts himself that he is not an infidel, and since he believes there is a God (though it may be one which his own imagination has devised) he prides himself that he is far from being an atheist. Yet as to having any living, spiritual, influential and practical knowledge of the Lord and His ways he is a stranger, altogether unenlightened.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.