Attraction Quote by Johan Huizinga

It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.

— Felix Bloch

During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams of glory,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully…

— William James

“Human imagination is a powerful thing. It can be a sanctuary from difficult times, a catalyst to change society, or the impetus to create…

— Brian Herbert

Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and…

— Louise J. Kaplan

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that…

— Philip Wylie

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco

Finally, it is important to make it clear that imagination is not an exercise for those detached from reality, those who live in the…

— Paulo Freire

We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What…

— Julian Barnes

When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.

— Randall Jarrell

“Children's egocentric tendency to attribute their own view of world to others, only later come to realize that they may have a unique and…

— Jacqui Stedmon

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive…

— Joshua Reynolds