I Quotes
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“Imagination is more valuable than information.”
“Imagination is my best friend.”
“Imagination is my Power and Overthinking makes it Powerful”
Source: Blood Bonding: Protector and Secrets
“Imagination is my ride to infinity.”
“Imagination is my rocket to outer Space!”
“Imagination is my strongest attribute.”
“Imagination is my time machine.”
“imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.”
Source: The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing
“Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed by the imagination.”
Source: The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
“Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.”
“Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is health of every man.”
“Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Source: Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination
“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.”
“Imagination is not an escape from reality or a denial of truth, but a realm of transformation, building a mental and emotional structure to resist disturbing external harassment. ( "The umbrella of our imagination")”
“Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.”
“Imagination is not bound by possibilities. The creative mind will always break the shackles—making the impossible, possible.”
“Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.”
Source: My appointment with the muse: essays, 1961-75
“Imagination is not obligated to let practicalities dominate, nor to judge itself in terms of dualistic language (true vs untrue; reality vs fantasy; good vs evil, etc.) The paradox of imagination is that it cannot imagine itself while it is experienced and it can't judge itself while experienced.
'I promise never to imagine cutting a kittens throat' is a ridiculous proposition. Most of us wish that people would not get pleasure imagining such things to the exclusion of anything else. Even so, imagining per se leaves no traces, while planning may do so and preforming always does. Imagining leave no traces, which is not the same as saying imagining has no effect.”
Source: Ethics of Luxury: Materialism and Imagination
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's minds, imagine themselves into other people's places.
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.”
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. [...]
And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages; they can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know. [...]
Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.”
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
“Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.”
Source: A Critic's Notebook
“Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.”
Source: Aims of Education
“Imagination is nothing more than sensory states. Learn to go beyond an idea by feeling its reality.”
“Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“Imagination is one of the strongest tools we've got. Keep yours sharp by using it often.”
“Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.”
“Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.”
“Imagination is our bioenergy shapeshifting into a version of reality that doesn’t exist locally.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“Imagination is our bioenergy shapeshifting into a version of reality that doesn’t exist locally. Our consciousness is just shifting infinitely fast to a version of the universe that occurred a moment later. We go forward in time to a place that exists prior in time. Humans are a time machine with consciousness running in reverse time to physical reality.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“Imagination is our hidden power to see the planes of existence that our eyes can't see. Use your imagination to disintegrate things into abstract forms and colours... and then watch them reintegrate. Sadly, people have stopped using their imagination and started using substances to have such heavenly experiences.”
“Imagination is paradise.”
“Imagination is phenomenal.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Imagination is potentially infinite. Though actually we are limited to the types of experience for which we possess organs, those organs are somewhat plastic. Opportunity will change their scope and even their center.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“Imagination is powerful. Imagination is healing. All you need is the courage to visualize what should be, and then give yourself to its creation. The result may not be what you expected, but it will be right.”
“Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.”
“Imagination is ruler of darkness, twisting and racking one’s mind until it succumbs to the will of the master.”
“Imagination is sacred gift.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.”
Source: Neville's Spiritual Classics
“Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.”
“Imagination is so much more fertile than life.”
“Imagination is something you do alone.”
“Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“Imagination is tapping into the subconscious in a form of open play. That is why art or music therapy, which encourages a person to take up brushes and paint or an instrument, and just express themselves, is so powerful.”
“Imagination is the ability to picture something in your mind.”
Source: Bryla's Amazing Imagination: Bryla Visits the Moon
“Imagination is the air of mind.”
Source: Beauties of Festus
“Imagination is the beginning of creation.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit