Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not… — Daniel B. Wallace
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government,… — L. Ron Hubbard
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this… — Nelson Mandela
To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World… — Joseph Needham
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to… — Pico Iyer
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in… — Kay Redfield Jamison
If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that… — Margaret Heffernan
We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or… — Fred Rogers
This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus… — Dorothy Draper
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the… — David Elkind
Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I… — Mike W. Barr
I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative,… — Kate Mulgrew
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but… — Gaston Bachelard
We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged—it is barely tolerated. — Warren Berger
Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration. — Harvey Mackay
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. — Kenneth Branagh
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of… — William T. Wiley
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer… — Andreas Feininger
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were… — Gore Vidal
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we… — Boris Johnson
The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with… — Susan Sontag
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read… — Eugene H. Peterson

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