Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

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 earthâ€”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
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a… — Robert Macfarlane
But what is now encompassed by the one word (â€œschoolâ€) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely… — Jonathan Kozol
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. — Paul Harding
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction… — Charles Horton Cooley
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. — Richard Dawkins
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world. — Suheir Hammad
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach… — Harold Bloom
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol:… — Julian Barnes
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have… — Anthony Minghella
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good… — Yehuda Amichai
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I… — Alan Lightman
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture… — Dan Chaon

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