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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool;
by Ursula K. Le Guin

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 above all by the imagination
that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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To oppose something is to maintain it.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

There are no right answers to wrong questions.
- 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

 

It is the journey that matters, in the end
- 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

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
- 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

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

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
- Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes life possible
is permanent, intolerable uncertainty;
not knowing what comes next.
- 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 everything.
It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali

The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein

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 debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung

Nothing is more dangerous to tradition
than the creative imagination of youth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey

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

I have ready access to a power beyond my wildest imagination.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl:
it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
- Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon

Happiness is a figment of the imagination.
Imagine happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
- Terry Pratchett

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams
than the imagination when awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first,
rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
- German Proverb

Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln

An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin

Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt,
kindness causes misunderstanding,
mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

It's the Consciousness with which we participate
in activities that makes the difference.
- Michael Beckwith

The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

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