Imagination Quotes

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Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world through the magic… — Azar Nafisi
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer… — Azar Nafisi
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with… — John Fowles
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it… — William H. Gass
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the… — William Butler Yeats
When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just… — Jim Lovell
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they… — William Hazlitt
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by… — Denis Diderot
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. — George Berkeley
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the… — Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with… — Richard Hofstadter
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree… — E F Schumacher
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery. — Cynthia Ozick
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination — Cynthia Ozick
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of… — Washington Irving
It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed — Peter Weir
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many personal… — C. Wright Mills

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