Quotes About Imagination

chemist Albert Szent-Györgyi said: "Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

Scientific discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.

I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

But every dream, if dreamed too long, turns into a nightmare. And we awake from such dreams screaming.

Mylisz niebo z gwiazdami odbitymi nocÄ… na powierzchni stawu.

It was a ceremonial supper. For they were going to part in the morning. In the morning each of them was going to go their own way; in search of something they already had. But they did not know they had it, they could not even imagine it. They could not imagine where the roads they were meant to set off on the next morning would lead. Each of them travelling separately.

Ludzie lubi? wymy?la? potwory i potworno?ci. Sami sobie wydaj? si? wtedy mniej potworni.

And you? Don't you have dreams now?' 'I do,' he said bitterly. 'But seldom since we crossed the Yaruga. And I remember nothing after waking. Something has ended in me, Cahir. Something has burned out. Something has ruptured in me . . .' 'Never mind, Geralt. I shall dream for both of us.

Dandelion! You're asleep in the saddle!' 'I'm not asleep. I'm thinking creatively!

Only in fables survives what cannot survive in nature. Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.' Three

But, Dandelion, I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.

Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility.

Ludzie (...) lubi? wymy?la? potwory i potworno?ci. Sami sobie wydaj? si? wtedy mniej potworni (...) Wtedy jako? l?ej im si? robi na sercu. I ?atwiej im ?y?.

I believe you, why not?' she finally said. 'Men like to meet their former lovers, like to relive memories. They like to imagine that erstwhile erotic ecstasies give them some kind of perpetual ownership of their partner. It enhances their self-importance. You are no exception. In spite of everything.

Ha, ha. I, my dear Ciri, am a poet. Poets know everything about things like this. I'll tell you something else; poets know more about this sort of thing than the people involved do.

Truth is one thing, poetry another.

I wonder what else you dreamed about. That you're a frog? Calm down. You aren't. Did you dream that you're a chump? Well, that dream might have been prophetic.

Those are just stories, Codringher.' 'You're right: stories. But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.

Todo sueño, si se sueña demasiado tiempo, se transforma en pesadilla

Little dryads fell asleep listening raptly to the wind blowing in the trees. Little witchers fell asleep listening raptly to their aching arms and legs. Our eyes also shone like Braenn's when we listened to the tales of Vesemir in Kaer Morhen. But that was long ago… So long ago… 'Well

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry