Germaine de Staël Quotes

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

Imagination decides everything.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.

Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.