Quotes About Imagination

When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we're inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts -- that we are individuals, but not alone.

Biologically and intellectually, reading allows the species to go "beyond the information given" to create endless thoughts most beautiful and wonderful.

There are many things that would be lost if we slowly lose the cognitive patience to immerse ourselves in the worlds created by books and the lives and feelings of the "friends" who inhabit them.

Whatever our age, we can be changed by the lives of others if we learn to connect the whole of the reading circuit with our moral imagination.

That is the purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and picture post cards, but to enlarge one's notion of all that has been, and all that is, and all that might be. In this way we begin to understand what part each of us was born to play in the marvelous tale of existence.

An open mind lets ideas out, as well as in" -Agatha Swanburne

He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is as if a veil has been lifted from my eyes, and the world I have lived in all my sixteen years is revealed to be something else entirely, something so marvelous I could never have imagined it.

If you want fresh ideas in your head, get some fresh mud on your boots.

I got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.

us," she thought, "or at least some bits of cheddar

popping a wheelawooo"),

Bubble apples, bubble apples!

Cassiopeia, the youngest, had taken a Giddy-Yap, Rainbow! book from the shelf to look at the pictures and had promptly fallen asleep in the rocking chair. Now she was sweetly snoring, the book nestled beneath her chin.

For example, Nutsawoo.

I name Nutsawoo.

Maryrose Wood

got the idea from Lumawoo's cannibal book,

The Incorrigible Land, and Lumawoo, Too.

and Lumawoo, too?

This is the whole purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and picture postcards, but to enlarge one's notion of all that has been, and all that is, and all that might be. In this way we begin to understand what part each of us was born to play in the marvelous tale of existence.

Simawoo," Cassiopeia chanted absently as she drew. "Simawoo, Simawoo, Simahwooooooo

los seres humanos vibran a 570 billones de veces por segundo, número que excede a la imaginación y revela un increíble y maravilloso potencial oculto.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.