Quotes by Imagination Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded. Norman Douglas ardentimagination I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination. Norman Douglas deitiesweaknessimagination Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. Noam Chomsky imaginationheroforever The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to do so as well, seeking to free ourselves from constraints imposed by coercive institutions, dogma, irrationality, excessive conformity and lack of initiative and imagination, and numerous other obstacles. Noam Chomsky obstaclesconformityimagination Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell. Northrop Frye catimaginationblue Literature speaks the language of the imagination, and the study of literature is supposed to train and improve the imagination. Northrop Frye studyimaginationliterature The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination. Northrop Frye imaginationliteraturereality My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him . Northrop Frye educatedpiecesimagination Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear Norman Vincent Peale obstaclesimaginationchristian We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. Northrop Frye rhetoricalsituationimagination In the world of the imagination, anything goes that's imaginatively possible, but nothing really happens. Northrop Frye anything-goesimaginationworld No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself Northrop Frye imaginationgivingart Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding. Obert C. Tanner communityunderstandingimagination Imagination is the true magic carpet. Norman Vincent Peale imaginationwiseart If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination. Oleta Adams my-imaginationimaginationifs Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale power-of-positive-thinkingobstaclesimagination Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless. Oliver Herring toolscreativeimagination We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination. Oliver Sacks eyeimaginationbrain Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. Oliver Sacks perceptionimaginationmemories We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them... Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. imaginationfearmen«112113114115116117118119120121122»
