For me the gifts of the novelist are empathy and imagination.
Imagination Quotes
Wallace Stevens has the most entries, then Shakespeare, Skye Jethani, the Filipino poet Gémino Abad and Joseph Joubert. The line everyone wants is Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” which comes from a 1929 interview with George Sylvester Viereck, where he says he is enough of an artist to draw freely upon it. Emerson, in Letters and Social Aims (1876), says science does not know its debt to imagination, and Thoreau, in 1849, calls the world canvas to our imaginations.
Three entries are flagged. The line about computers being fast, accurate and stupid, humans slow, inaccurate and brilliant, is credited to Einstein and marked misattributed. Bacon is credited with a line on imagination and a sense of humor, and Poe with a remark about religion, both disputed; the notes put the Poe remark in a 1901 biography that has been much criticized.
This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
What defies my imagination is that there would be nothing out there that would defy my imagination.
The imagination is the only place in the universe where it is possible to live.
Our idea of the universe as a whole remains a product of the imagination.
Lack of imagination also indicates lack of commitment for figuring it out.
It’s not the size of the brush; it’s the expanse of the imagination.
Like any other faculty, imagination can be starved and suffocated or stimulated and nourished.
I hope my kids see imagination has power to change everything.
I do think that words and materialized imagination have the power to overtake reality.