Quotes About Imagination

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

I think education and intelligence (are) important, but not art. Not artistic education.

Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it come out; 3 is taste; 4 is intelligence.

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.

It's the diversity of intelligence, the diversity of creativity, that is so very much necessary to creating whole solutions.

I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

The mind is not limited to the thoughts and imagination, but your mind is part of the cosmos of the universe. Your mind is whole awareness field.

I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.