Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

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 a powerful force underlying all knowing

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

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

Imagination is a form of seeing

The facts, even the real ones, must be imagined before they can be stated.

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

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.

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

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.

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.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

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.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

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.