What is more important... Better yet, essential to man's…

And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come…

— Thomas de Quincey

“for a man who denies what is essential to his being is a man who drills holes in the cup of his own happiness.”

— Brent Weeks

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to…

— John Fowles

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

— George Washington

...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust…

— Anne Lamott

Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense,…

— Willa Cather

“What they failed to realize is that we all should have a sense of imagination. My failures made me dream harder because I had…

— Charlena Jackson

When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a sense of…

— Laila Lalami

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

— Alan Rickman

The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean…

— Christopher Fry

When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your…

— John O'Donohue

Clad in metaphor, the world becomes newborn to our senses, like a phoenix. It is the most effective fresh presentation of the elements of…

— Vera Nazarian