Quotes About Perspective

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

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

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.