Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope… — John A. Ashley Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends. — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism. — Carol Bowman Copy Share Image
Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze… — Chris Bachelder Copy Share Image
The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object,… — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings… — William Appleman Williams Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
The only rule was that the stuff had to be funny and pretty short. To me, the quintessential Army Man joke was… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult,… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it? — David Bowie Copy Share Image
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while… — Sherilyn Fenn Copy Share Image
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom! — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Just like the car headlights impressively illuminating the dark streets, wisdom words powerfully enlighten the dark minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Giving to others selflesly and anonymously, radiating light throughout the world and illuminating your own darkness, your virtue becomes a sanctuary for… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things and I am greatly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
