Imaginative Quotes

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

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.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.

A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

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.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.

We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

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.

I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things, and we have really imaginative, smart writers - I can't wait to see what they make with the ingredients they have on hand.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.