Quotes About Reflection

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.

Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.

Imagination is something you do alone.

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

In the deepest realm of being, is the imagination of ourselves. What is your next evolutionary leap? What are you imagining, (for yourself) right now?

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.