Quotes About Insight

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 imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

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

It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination.

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

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

I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

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

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high.

Imagination is better than a sharp instrument. To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

I live in my own head and it all makes sense to me.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Look beyond what you see.

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it.

Structures of which we are unaware hold us prisoner.

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.