Quotes About Imagination

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.

The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.

You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.