Quotes about Imagination

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?

Ideas... they have the power.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible.