Twyla Tharp Quotes

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

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.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

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.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us.