Quotes about Imagination

My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

A heaven you created by yourself will never be heaven for long.

Science is now giving us a very helpful language for what religion rightly intuited and imaged, albeit in mythological language. Remember, myth does not mean "not true," which is the common misunderstanding; it actually refers to things that are always true!

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?

Ideas... they have the power.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.