John Norman Quotes

Humans are very imaginative animals.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

To become an expert achiever in any human activity, it takes practice... practice... practice.

Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.

Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

True understanding is the spur of genius

All human activity is prompted by desire.

Dream not ... of having tasted all the grandeur and wildness of fancy till you have gone mad!

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

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.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.

How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

A mind to serve for the peace of all human beings in the world is needed in Aikido, and not the mind of one who wishes to be strong or who practices only to fell an opponent.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.