Quotes about Imagination
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
- Albert Einstein
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize
- Joseph Campbell
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
- Margaret Atwood
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
- Oscar Wilde
Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
We do not lealve the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions, We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.
- Alain de Botton
As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.
- Alain de Botton
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
- Alain de Botton
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
- Alain de Botton
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work, rather teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.
- Alan Hirsch