Quotes about imagination
imagination mixed people
People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.
imagination giving shapes
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez
imagination hints suggestions
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys. C. S. Lewis
imagination creative important
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important. Antoni Tapies
imagination solitude
Imagination flourishes best in solitude. Anthony Storr
imagination missing desire
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.
imagination inspire fuel
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior. Bill Vaughan
imagination
You are the imagination of yourself. Bill Hicks
imagination heaven purpose
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time. Bertrand Russell
imagination effort desire
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
imagination
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Claudia Rankine
imagination void wonderful
That was a wonderful void to let imagination work. Geraldine Brooks
imagination marriage triumph
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Oscar Wilde
imagination
Live in your imagination, not in your past.
imagination
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series. Kate Winslet
imagination knowledge
Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
imagination study
Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.
imagination imagined robust
I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things, August Wilson
imagination
It could be anything. It's up to a person's imagination of what they can make a Colonel.
imagination simplicity firsts
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. Antoni Gaudi
imagination stretch woods
We've been very lucky, but we're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination.
imagination world may
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail. Blaise Pascal
imagination individuality needs
If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. Billie Holiday
imagination man needs
Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Tom Waits
imagination political feelings
We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy. Azar Nafisi
imagination littles great-work
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas.
imagination poverty logic
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
imagination enthusiasm heat
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life. Benjamin Disraeli
imagination politics opponents
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
imagination causes metaphor
For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.
imagination worry research
I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."
imagination form
It is through the imagination that the formless takes form. Catherine Ponder
imagination god-exists knows
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination. Alan Lightman