I Quotes
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“Imagination was so close to memory. When you pictured the future hard enough, it could feel like the past.”
Source: The Museum of Human History
“Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.”
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan”
Source: Serenity's Dream: A collection of tales and poems about mystical journeys.
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
Source: Cosmos
“Imagination will take flight, dive deep, and climb mountains.”
Source: Imagination Bigger Together
“Imagination withers when realisation blooms, and the ethical view of our condition withers along with it.”
Source: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
“Imagination without clarity is fantasy; clarity without imagination is stagnation. Dreaming in the clear sky of our minds makes us live creatively, balancing wonder with wisdom, and inspiration with insight. (“With a dream in the clear sky of her mind”)”
“Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Imagination without initiative would more properly be called idle daydreaming.”
Source: Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind
“Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.”
“Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.”
“Imagination without reason is mere fancy, but reason without imagination is sterile.”
Source: The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
“Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.”
“Imagination without skill makes a lively chaos. Skill without imagination a deadly order.”
Source: Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
“Imagination, working at full strength, can shake us out of our fatal, adoring self-absorption and make us look up and see- with terror or with relief- that the world does not, in fact, belong to us at all.”
“Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.”
Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
“Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the greatest is, without any doubt, imagination.”
“Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.”
“Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.”
“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”
“Imagination, like reality, has its limits.”
“IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.”
“Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”
“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
Source: In Cold Blood
“Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.”
Source: Elements of Chemistry
“Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now.”
Source: Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier DeMaistre
“Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!”
“Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.”
Source: Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
“Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
“Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?”
Source: Philosophers and Actresses
“Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.”
Source: The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau
“Imagination, which in truth
Is but another name for absolute power
And clearest insight, amplitude of mind,
And reason, in her most exalted mood.”
“Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.”
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.”
“Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.”
“Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.”
“Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.”
Source: By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
“Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.”
“Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?”
“Imaginations gracing human hearts:
Like landscapes’ grandeur ’stilling truth’s true arts (p. 3).”
Source: Incipiencies: A Primitiae of Poetry
“Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline.”
Source: Art as Medicine
“Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.”
“Imaginative humans came together to hunt, farm, trade, and build incrementally sophisticated tools for transportation, communication, productivity, and convenience. ... Tribes and villages became kingdoms and empires, only to later dissolve into the cities and countries of a global civilization. ... Today, we live in concrete jungles, store fruit in fridges, cook oats with microwaves, and carry smartphones in our pockets. Electricity lights up our world, while the energy for it comes from increasingly sustainable sources. Global warming has finally convinced us to grow our food and fuel our activities in ways that do not pollute the planet, exhaust ecosystems, or exploit our fellow animals. We now seek to preserve the environmental stability of the last 10,000 years, during which our species transformed from a few million wandering foragers to nearly ten billion technological titans. Today, we are masters of science, exploring everything from the cosmic to the quantum. We discuss Einstein’s gravity and spacetime relativity, while decoding the molecular mysteries of life and longevity. We fling satellites into orbit, hook computers up to an internet, and seed our society with intelligent programs and robots.”
Source: Tool Makers: A Concise History of Humans & Science
“Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness”
Source: How to Read and Why
“Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why one is pleased. Beauty is harder to analyze than truth.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“Imaginative people remain distinguished ....for their heavenly madness. ...They do not run away from chaos or the stab of grief....but by encountering and getting to grips with loss...they force it to crack open and make a sense, sanity out of that insanity....They tear apart the haze to peer through the fog...for the pen they hold...the brush they move on the canvas....takes them to chase the meaningless and resurface with a meaning.....”
“Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.”