My favorite quotes about imagination and curiosity

This page lists my favorite quotes about the importance of imagination and curiosity.

“Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed.” 

― Robert H. Schuller
“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.” 

 ― Albert Einstein
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” 

 ― Albert Einstein
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” 

 ― Albert Einstein
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
 
 —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64” 

 ― Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” 

 ― Albert Einstein
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” 

― Isaac Newton
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

― Isaac Newton
“Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.”

 ― Robert H. Schuller
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien

 

"We do not have knowledge of a thing until we have grasped its why, that is to say, its cause." 

― Aristotle, Physics