Quotes about Imagination

Not believing in God is a far more arduous affair than is generally imagined," Eagleton concludes.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

The clouds were so low that one could hook onto them and let oneself be carried away to a distant land, to the south, to warmer climes.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

In the biblical view the issue is not modern versus postmodern. Both these views are partly right, and both are finally wrong. Nor is it rational argument versus story, or reason versus imagination. In fact it is not either-or at all. The deep logic of God's truth can be expressed in both stories and arguments, by questions as well as statements, through reason and the imagination, through the four Gospels as well as through the book of Romans.