Quotes About Imagination

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

He who is jealous, is never jealous of what you see, with what is imagined is enough.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Imagination is the language of the soul. Pay attention to your imagination and you will discover all you need to be fulfilled.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

Having all the answers just means you've been asking boring questions.

ante la ignorancia se puede inventar—.

Una novela no sólo cuenta, sino que nos permite asistir a una historia o a unos acontecimientos o a un pensamiento

Mintha keresnénk a hálátlan vagy a lehetetlen feladatokat, és vannak, akik ilyenek közt élik az életüket, mert az életet csak úgy tudják elképzelni, hogy az csupa szenvedés, küzdelem, konfliktus és dráma: bonyolítják, hogy kibogozhassák, és így elfoglalják magukat egész idÅ' alatt, ami nekik adatott.

Pero si el caminante es demasiado joven, le será imposible renunciar a sus sueños aunque el mundo se empeñe en robárselos.

Pues tal es la virtud de los sueños: que apartan nuestra mirada del huesudo rostro de la muerte.

Pero los sueños, que no siempre son piadosos ni inofensivos, tienen la costumbre de seguir su propio camino y elegir a sus soñantes.

Tengo un cansancio infinito y, al tiempo, ninguno. Podría dormir diez días seguidos y no dormir en lo que me queda de vida. Podría quedarme dormido en esta mesa y permanecer insomne días enteros, tumbado en mi litera. Podría soñar despierto e imaginar la realidad como un sueño.

Escribir es renunciar a lo que uno es y ponerse al servicio de vidas ajenas que te susurran al oído.