Quotes about Imagination

Our capacity to picture what is not there is credited with making us both inventive and foolish. Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that her imagination “gives me all the world and exiles me from it”, and Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that “Science does not know its debt to imagination”. Joseph Joubert called it, more simply, the eye of the soul.

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“Imagination gallops; judgment merely walks.”
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Original (French)

L'imagination galope, le jugement ne va que le pas

VerifiedFrench saying; recorded in James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations (1899), p. 235 · evidenceDetails & citeImagination
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“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
VerifiedThe Sense of Wonder (1965) · evidenceDetails & citeImagination
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“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.”
VerifiedMinority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956) · evidenceDetails & citeImagination
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