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
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It is above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Though I am a servant, I am not your servant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Love doesn't just sit there like a stone;
it has to be made,like bread,
remade all the time, made new.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Imagination is everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without this playing with fantasy,
no creative work has ever yet come to birth.
The debt we owe to the play of
the imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
while imagination embraces the entire world,
and all there ever will be to know and understand.
- Albert Einstein
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
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett
One cannot have wisdom without perspective,
but once gaining perspective, one attains wisdom.
Wisdom is the ability to view every situation
as each person who is in any way affected
by that situation might view it.
Wisdom benefits from having a knowledge of history,
and therefore a historical perspective,
as well from as having the perspective of imagination -
the realm of the what-might-be
inhabited by futurists and science-fiction writers.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin
I believe in intuition and inspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited,
whereas imagination embraces the entire world,
stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
- Albert Einstein
This physical world is to our imagination as ice is to water -
pure water forms pure ice - dirty water forms dirty ice.
Consider how much easier it is to purify water before it freezes
than it is to chip the impurities from the solid ice.
So also, it is much easier to purify your thoughts
before they manifest into physical reality,
than to try to cut the cancerous impurities from solid reality
after you have manifested your thoughts into physical form.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
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