Katherine Paterson Quotes

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

I think at any age, you can stay open and creative and excited.

Definition is the death of discovery.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

I don't ever want to lose that mind-set where you've got to be able to realize different ideas-slash-fantasies-slash-possibilities in your life.

Imagination - that's the future for us.