Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

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.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

Learning a musical instrument is challenging, it demands fine motor skills and coordination. It develops children's listening, thinking skills, imagination and perseverance. It brings out the very best in the children as they work collaboratively with their peers and teachers.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.