Human Imagination Quotes

• Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Nature, Imagination, Environmental

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  Edmund Wilson

  Imagination, Possibility, Humans

  Edmund Wilson (2007). “Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s”

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• Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

  John Berger

  Dream, Dog, Philosophy

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.231, Vintage

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• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Stupid, Equality

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1996). “Unlocking the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity

  "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

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• Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspiration, Carpe Diem, Race

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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• Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Imagination, Perception, Agents

  Biographia Literaria ch. 13 (1817)

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• You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

  Denis Waitley

  Dream, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

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• Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

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• What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

  Rollo May

  Art, Imagination, What If

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• 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

  Inspirational, Imagination, Innovation

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• Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  J. K. Rowling

  Imagination, Humans, Human Capacity

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• There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Pain, Real

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• Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

  Norman Cousins

  Education, Hurt, Unique

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• The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Reality, Imagination, Design

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• 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

  Cat, Blue, Imagination

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.105, Indiana University Press

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• The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

  Northrop Frye

  Reality, Imagination, Literature

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.470, University of Toronto Press

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• 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

  Art, Giving, Imagination

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.473, University of Toronto Press

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Reality

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• Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.

  John Noble

  Eye, Night, Sky

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• I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

  Ivan Klíma

  Imagination, Dying, Literature

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• I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

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