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The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. — Alfred North Whitehead
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. — Northrop Frye
As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on… — Sarah Brightman
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with… — Paul Theroux
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write… — Hannah Kent
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came… — Robert Gottlieb
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just… — J. G. Ballard
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or… — J. G. Ballard
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest -… — P L Travers
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the… — Sarah Waters
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless… — Archibald Hill
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that gives them a… — Theresa Breslin
The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. — Herman Wouk
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. — Alexander Chase
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective. — David K. E. Bruce
Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again. — Moira Kelly
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an… — Jonathan Miller
In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power… — Gerry Adams
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment,… — Stephen Hunter
I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had… — Ginnifer Goodwin
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres. — Jasper Fforde
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that… — Kay Redfield Jamison

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