imagination - quotes

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Jane Austen, 1775-1817

was an English novelist

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

( Pride and Prejudice, 1813 )

Joseph Addison, 1672-1719

was an English essayist, poet, and politician

Our imagination loves to be filled with an object or to grasp at anything that is too big for it's capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.

( 1712 )

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

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.