Quotes About Imagination

She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

In a word, literature is my utopia.

Believe. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond our senses.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

i have heard of the stars, of the play of light on the waves these i would like to see but far more than sight i wish for my ears to be opened the voice of a friend the imaginations of mozart life without these is darker by far than blindness

He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.

True, I cannot see the stars scattered like gold dust in the heavens, but stars just as bright shine in my soul.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.

In college, there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures–solitude, books and imagination–outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day.

Some of the most significant discoveries in modern science owe their origin to the imagination of men who had neither accurate knowledge nor exact instruments to demonstrate their beliefs.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures — solitude, books and imagination — outside with the whispering pines. I

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

So imagination crowns the experience of my hands. And they learned their cunning from the wise hand of another, which, itself guided by imagination, led me safely in paths that I knew not, made darkness light before me, and made crooked ways straight.