Jim Fowler Quotes

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Imagination is a form of seeing

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

What I can't create I don't understand

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

All that you can imagine you already know.

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.