Active Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are…

— John Dewey

By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Human imagination is a powerful thing. It can be a sanctuary from difficult times, a catalyst to change society, or the impetus to create…

— Brian Herbert

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

— Carl Jung

When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It…

— Rollo May

The practice of imagination, on an everyday basis, involves clearing unhelpful images that block or misdirect our energies, and choosing to focus on positive,…

— Robert Moss

“I beg you to cultivate imagination, which means to develop your power of sympathy, and I entreat you to decide thoughtfully what makes a…

— Bill Dedman

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we…

— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

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

— J. K. Rowling

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it…

— Patricia A. McKillip