The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.
We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
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.
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world.
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.
Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.
A reasonable scale of probability-what is likely-forbids believing a whole range of imaginative possibilities, even though we do not know anything for sure.
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games and even invent their own rules.
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being. . . ultimate reality is what we call God.
[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct