Christopher Fry Quotes

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

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.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

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