Best wonder & imagination Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.”

Earth Imagination Wonder Precious Things

“Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.”

Thinking Art Body Might Imagination Wonder Grace Happened Taste Stranger Naked Shock Vessel Anatomy

Author:Robert Genn

“If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.”

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.”

Thinking Trying Stills Imagination Wonder New Things Vivid Childlike Sense Of Wonder Vivid Imagination

Author:Iris Apfel

“Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.”

Ifs Use Imagination Fiction Wonder Genre Ghetto Suburbs Realist

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.”

“The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.”

Should Opportunity Imagination Wonder Duty Believer Routine Anticipation Gathering Drudgery

Author:Ross Parsley

“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.”

Feels Has Beens Born Imagination Wonder Exercise Bounds

Book:Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?”

Way May Long Doe Has Beens War Evil Imagination Wonder Civilization Battle Invisible Release Defeated Adversaries Frail Actuality Elementals Barbarity

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].”

Should Mind Body Imagination Poor Wonder Praying Creatures Empty Enjoyment Terrified Belly Plight Empty Heads

Author:Laurence Sterne

“As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."”

People Men Should Made Kids Song Imagination Wonder Shoes Purple Vivid Vivid Imagination

Author:Pharrell Williams

“When I walk into a market I may see a different cut of meat or an unusual vegetable and think, ‘I wonder how it would be if I took the recipe for that sauce I had in Provence and put the two together?’ So I go home and try it out. Sometimes my idea is a success and sometimes it is a flop, but that is how recipes are born. There really are not recipes, only millions of variations sparked by someone’s imagination and desire to be a little creative and different. American cooking is built, after all, on variations of old recipes from around the world.”

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)”

Men Children Reading Loses Imagination Wonder Fantasy Talent Moon Method Pity Conclusion Steady Status Quo Absorbing

Author:Albert Einstein

“When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer's imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must "hesitate", we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.”

Way Play Form Imagination Natural Wonder Issues Doubt Creation Shapes Revelations Construction Composer Echoes Arrangements Doubted Flux Natural Forms Tableau

Author:Russell Sherman

“From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.”

Want Feels Helping Light Happens Black Imagination Wonder Imagine Birth Ocean Photograph Wave Appearance Prologue

Author:Rinko Kawauchi

“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. I might be tempted to envy people who can live that way, except that I do not think they have any fewer nightmares than I do. The wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.”

People Thinking Knows Way Feels Mind Heart Doe Has Beens Might Suffering Born Imagination Wonder Exercise Bounds Refuse Envy Monsters Nightmare Scream Fewer Peers Cages Heart And Mind Tempted

Author:J. K. Rowling

“In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render ourselves vulnerable to the "favors of God" - those indescribable experiences that mock our dualisms and so saturate our imagination with abundance that they transcend our ability to convey joy and wonder. In the tradition of St. John of the Cross, we can learn to survive and derive benefits from the soul's dark night.”

“Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.”

Men Mind Heart Doe Hands Imagination Wonder Moral Steps Progress Farce

Author:Vance Havner

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