<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Imagination - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66708]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63907]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63293]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of imagination makes us infinite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you can imagine is real. -Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is more important than knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20551]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20552]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing-are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20547]]></link><description><![CDATA[To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas Edison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20549]]></link><description><![CDATA[When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if.."; And then do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20540]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is but a canvas to our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build castles in Spain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap In imperceptible water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap In imperceptible water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves. [Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20523</guid></item></channel></rss>