Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

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.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.

See things not as they are but as they might be.

To do the impossible, you must be able to see the invisible.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.

Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

Capability means imagination.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

Everything we can imagine becomes real.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.

Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.