Quotes About Imagination

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

Of course. You get everything from books.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries

It's not just the adage 'write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know.

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...