Quotes about Imagination

Blessed are the dreamers, and cursed be the man who opens their eyes. True, the dreamers cannot save us, neither they nor their disciples, but without dreams and without dreamers the curse that lies upon us would be seven times heavier. Thanks to the dreamers, maybe we who are awake are a little less ossified and desperate than we would be without them.

just to break the silence. He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.

Curiosity and imagination are bound together. The age-old human urge to peek behind other people's drawn shutters, the eagerness to compare one's own intimate secrets with the secret intimacy of others, is an urge that may serve as an antidote to the fanatic's lust to murder the difference between himself and others. Or to kill anyone who refuses to change and declines to be exactly like him.

Do not live in your human imagination of what is possible. Live in the word - in the love and infinite faithfulness of the Lord Jesus.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

But my Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant Office that ever the invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived: and as I can do neither good nor Evil, I must be borne away by Others and meet the common Fate.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.