Quotes About Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

OK," Josh said evenly, "I've seen men made of mud, I guess I can accept spying rats. Do they talk?" he wondered aloud. Don't be ridiculous," Flamel snapped, "They're rats." Josh really didn't think it was a ridiculous suggestion.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

Reading opens the soul to new journeys.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

word 'dream' in the English language, or its equivalent in other languages, is probably one of the most familiar words in our vocabulary. It tends to have a variety of uses, such as, visionary, as in the above quotation, or wishful, as in hoping to win a lottery or to meet a soul mate or to have a successful career. Such dreams would fall into a category of waking or conscious experiences (mostly!), but the most common form of dreams,

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.

Oliphant plays with images of windows and mirrors, translucence and opacity, the present and the past.

Imagining human culture from the perspective of a non-human species can be salutary.

What if grasshoppers had machine guns? Birds would be fucked!

Like we'd opened a portal to some level of Hell so profane and obscene even Dante never imagined it.

Either live in reality or get left behind in imagination

You start by reading books, and you end by loving them

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He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.

I didn't do it; I can just imagine doing it. Maybe that's the difference between crazy and not crazy.

Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

that window and to the right. I'd seen several old movies where the boy tossed pebbles at the girl's window. So I planned to use that approach. But I needed something more accurate, more effective. And

Trump's entire world was construed from what he saw on television.

It was all too possible that the hardly plausible would lead to the totally credible.

Everyone knows the feeling of excitement on discovering a book that unlocks the imagination; it enables us to inhabit another world - of heightened language, thought and ideas. Great literature holds the seed of a kind of liberation that remains with us throughout life