Quotes About Imagination

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.

Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

No man can stay for forever young, Unless he is a writer.

No man can stay forever young unless he is a writer.

It isn't an idea until it's created irrespective of its result

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.