Quotes About Imagination

We pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliabillity, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify. Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

There was no particular reason to do so, but your mind automatically assumed a temporal sequence and a causal connection between the words bananas and vomit, forming a sketchy scenario in which bananas caused the sickness.

Geschichten in Geschichten in Geschichten. Man weiß nie, wo eine endet und eine andere beginnt! In Wahrheit fließen alle ineinander. Nur in Büchern sind sie säuberlich getrennt.

Wir sind immer in Geschichten

Insa, cand au trecut de primele suburbii ale Berlinului si Humboldt si-a inchipuit cum Gauss a cercetat corpurile ceresti prin telescopul sau in tot acest timp - corpuri ceresti ale caror orbite pot fi descrise in formule simple -, n-a mai fost in stare sa spuna care dintre ei doi a ramas acasa si care a colindat lumea.

What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool's jokes, but now that the canvas hung there, it had developed its own power.

Aber seien wir doch ehrlich, es ist ein seltsamer Beruf. Ein wenig lächerlich für einen erwachsenen Menschen. Sie sitzen daheim und denken sich Geschichten aus, die nie passiert sind.

Arthur, sie ziehen die Grenzen zu eng. Ich verrate Ihnen ein Geheimnis, ein sehr großes und streng gehütetes Geheimnis, von dem alle wissen, außer Ihnen. Das hier ist ein Traum. Ich meine das nicht philosophisch, Gott bewahre! Es ist wirklich einer. Und zwar Ihrer. Wir alle gehören dazu, jeder von uns ist Ihre Erfindung. Wenn Sie aufwachen, sind wir weg, nichts mehr, gelöscht, es hat uns nie gegeben.

Stories within stories within stories. You never know where one ends and another begins! In truth, they all flow into one another. It's only in books that they're clearly divided.

Erzählen, das bedeutet einen Bogen spannen, wo zunächst keiner ist, den Entwicklungen Struktur und Folgerichtigkeit gerade dort verleihen, wo die Wirklichkeit nichts davon bietet.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Downsiders," said the clown, "never look up.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

sixteenth-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. He once quipped, "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

To see is to experience the world as it is, to remember is to experience the world as it was, but to imagine-ah, to imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be. The greatest achievement of the human brain is its ability to imagine objects and episodes that do not exist in the realm of the real, and it is this ability that allows us to think about the future.

We use our eyes to look into space and our imaginations to look into time.

If the past is a wall with some holes, the future is a hole with no walls.

Memory uses the filling-in trick, but imagination is the filling-in trick

But just as we tend to treat the details of future events that we do imagine as though they were actually going to happen, we have an equally troubling tendency to treat the details of future events that we don't imagine as though they were not going to happen. In other words, we fail to consider how much imagination fills in, but we also fail to consider how much it leaves out.

Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Shakespeare, Macbeth