"Dream is not that which you see while sleeping, it is something that does not let you sleep."A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Imagination Quotes

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · IMAGINATION
Imagination Quotes
200 inspiring imagination quotes from Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, Pablo Picasso, Carl Sagan and William Blake on creativity, dreams and wonder.
DreamsAmbition
"Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action."A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
DreamsAction
"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."Swami Vivekananda
PowerSelf-Belief
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea."Swami Vivekananda
IdeasFocus
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas A. Edison
InventionPersistence
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
Orville Wright
InnovationProgress
"Stay hungry, stay foolish."
Steve Jobs
CuriosityAmbition
"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
Richard P. Feynman
LearningOriginality
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan
CosmosWonder
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
UniverseScience
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
Marie Curie
UnderstandingFear
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet."
Stephen Hawking
StarsCuriosity
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Isaac Newton
KnowledgeHumility
"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur
DiscoveryPreparation
"I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams."
Jonas Salk
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
IdeasGrowth
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey
ScienceImagination
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck
IdeasCreativity
"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible."
Soren Kierkegaard
PossibilityPotential
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."Friedrich Nietzsche
CreativityChaos
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."Friedrich Nietzsche
ArtTruth
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
IdeasCourage
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."
Mary Shelley
InventionCreativity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
OriginalityFailure
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
Louisa May Alcott
AspirationsDreams