Imagination Quotes - Page 20

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.

An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the imagination possible. Doubt is unsettling to the ego and those who are drawn to ideologies that promise the dispelling of doubt by preferring certainties never grow.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Life has more imagination than we do.

Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up a theory from them. It began with the invention of a possible world, or a fragment thereof, which was then compared by experimentation with the real world. And it was this constant dialogue between imagination and experiment that allowed one to form an increasingly fine-grained conception of what is called reality.

Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.