Quotes about Imagination
I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with his book, knowing that the next hour is all his own. And how vivid and fresh it all is!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The greatest wisdom consists in enjoying the present and making this enjoyment the goal of life, because the present is all that is real and everything else merely imaginary. But you could just as well call this mode of life the greatest folly: for that which in a moment ceases to exist, which vanishes as completely as a dream, cannot be worth any serious effort.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't know how long I looked for Toni every day at noontime, sitting on the stoop. Eventually, her image receded into that place from which all my dreams are made.
— Audre Lorde
speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the word poetry to mean—in order to cover a desperate wish for imagination without insight.
— Audre Lorde
If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!
— Stephen Colbert
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
— Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
— Stephen Covey
I told him never to be afraid to come up with an idea or a hypothesis no matter how daft (his words not mine) it might seem.
— Stephen Hawking