#imagination
Explore Books, Authors and Common Highlights on Imagination
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
From Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
The future will be shaped by those who can imagine it.
From The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.
The potential of CRISPR technology is limited only by our imagination.
From The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
Science fiction is a way of imagining the future.
From The Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
Visualization is a powerful tool that allows you to create your reality before it happens.
From How Champions Think by Bob Rotella
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Sound can transport us to different times and places.
From The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox
Every flower is a story waiting to be told.
From The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
The sky is a canvas, and clouds are the paint.
The brain is a universe of possibilities.
The sound of a violin can transport you to another world.
From The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop by John Marchese
Children’s ability to imagine is what drives their learning and growth.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
The ability to create and believe in fiction is what makes us human.
From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
In the realm of possibility, we can generate new worlds.
From The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
The telegraph connected people in ways previously unimaginable.
From The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
Every flower is a story waiting to be told.
From The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock
The writer's job is to create the perfect world.
From On Writing Well by William Zinsser
The future is an open-ended question waiting for our answers.
I paint my own reality.
From What Would Frida Do? by Arianna Davis
Imagination is the blueprint of reality.
From Out of the Ether by Matthew Leising
The power of imagination is the driving force behind innovation.
From The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.
From The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Clouds are the storytellers of the sky.
The potential of AI is limited only by our imagination.
From Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
From What Would Frida Do? by Arianna Davis
The exploration of reality requires both imagination and rigorous logic.
From The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
Children can learn to create and manipulate their own worlds.
From Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert
Scent has the power to transport us to another place and time.
From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
From The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The ability to think about the future is a gift of childhood.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
Your imagination will lead you to new possibilities.
From Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
The most powerful tool we have is our imagination.
From The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
Books are a way to travel without moving your feet.
From The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The mind is the limit; as long as you can imagine something, you can achieve it.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
We create fictions and then we believe in them.
From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Our perception of air is influenced by both scientific inquiry and poetic imagination.
From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
The story of AI is a story of human ambition and imagination.
From Genius Makers by Cade Metz
Imagination is crucial to our ability to reason and understand the world around us.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
Imagination is the engine of development.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.
From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
He had a vision of the earth beneath our feet that was unlike anything anyone had seen before.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
The world is a big, rich, and complex place for a child.
From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The algorithms we create will shape our lives in ways we can't yet imagine.
From The Big Nine by Amy Webb
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
From Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence by Gary Mack
The act of reading can transport us to different worlds.
From The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt