It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some… — Padraic Colum Copy Share Image
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Whereas some dwell on the bright side of life, enjoying an exciting spectrum of contingencies, and get all the breaks, others live… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I've done commentary before for Pancrase, they had a show called 'Pancrase: Legends of MMA' that aired on Imagination Television. I've done… — Josh Barnett Copy Share Image
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Mr. Bergman had a great imagination and saw the possibilities within every one of his actors, and he gave us great challenges.… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
Every time I close my eyes I can touch the colors around me ,Suddenly I realize everything I thought was impossible is… — Cider Sky Copy Share Image
You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos.… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We talked [with Scott Derrickson] about making it kind of muscular and practical. Yeah it's a fantasy but what's the difference between… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
“Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too. Blend them together for one potent brew. The magical spell to your dreams coming… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not… — Ben Askren Copy Share Image
My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“Possibility, or what we refer to as imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%. The problem is, this 1%… — Kouhei Kadono Copy Share Image
The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image