Quotes About Imagination

Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.

The poet's is the highest type of character: other men dwell in the conventional--he chiefly abides in the universal.

The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.

Without imagination a man is but a poor creature. His life is like a night without a moon to gild it.

The ideas of things precede and lead to their creation.

Genius speaks and acts for all men. In its triumphs all are interested. They enlarge our conceptions of the worth of humanity, and extend the limits of our capacities. In the grandeur and sweep of the poet's imagination, in the stern patience and searching analysis of the student of causes--compelling, as it were, reluctant Nature to a revelation of her secrets--we see ourselves, as in a magnifying mirror, enlarged and exalted.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

I would, however, add some ideas and that's what this brand new and

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

One foot on Mount Olympus, the other in the kitty litter.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

We all live best in our imaginations.

I do confess that I bring to the study of history the prejudices born of my experiences and imagination—who doesn't—but I will not admit that this disqualifies me from seeing some bit of the truth about the past, even if only a bit.

Roll gently onto your back for me, and know my teeth are made of feathers.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it." —Alan Kay

outside-the-box

É mais fácil inventar o futuro do que prevê-lo." — Alan Kay

The biggest needle movers will be things that customers don't know to ask for," he would write years later in a letter to shareholders. "We must invent on their behalf. We have to tap into our own inner imagination about what's possible.

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent out way out

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent our way out