#imagination

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#class #connection #deep #educated #ideas

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#america #built #determination #fear #hand

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#clearly #does #dreams #eye #imagination

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. ↗

— Alan Watts

#enjoy #great #how #imagination #know

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#born #buddy #called #children #community

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

#also #anyone #become #bit #could

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#imagination #like #new #product #relations

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

#fool #gives #human #imagination #makes