“I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.”
— Amy Tan
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To treat your facts with imagination is
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”
— John Burroughs
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People who lean on logic and philosophy
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
— William Butler Yeats
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies
“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”
— Luis Bunuel
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
— J. K. Rowling
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I look back into past history, the
“I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.”
— Jerzy Kosinski
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Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with
“Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.”
— James Welch
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark
“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.”
— L. Frank Baum
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It is not enough to know your
“It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
— Edouard Manet
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The tree which moves some to tears
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
— William Blake
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
— Carl Sagan
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