Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without… — Thomas Berry
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician… — Thomas Carlyle
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue! — Gavin McInnes
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness asks how and… — Alexander Nehamas
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who… — Diane Cilento
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas… — S. T. Joshi
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of… — Northrop Frye
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation.… — Alison Lurie
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single,… — Minor White
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that… — Eugene Ionesco
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became… — L. Frank Baum
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people. — Walter Bagehot
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the… — Julia Child
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the… — Philip Wylie
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove literally… — Isaiah Berlin
Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life. — Unknown Author
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight. — Unknown Author
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. — Brenda Ueland
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener… — Brenda Ueland
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could mean to you… — Ric Ocasek
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. — Helen Vendler

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