#magi

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#religion #science #willful-ignorance #imagination

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#doubt #innocence #parents #imagination

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#pirates #sea #imagination

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#compensate #console #given #him #imagination

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood... ↗

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

#passion #sexual #imagination

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. ↗

— Anatole France

#imagination

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#imagination

I closed my eyes," he repeated after a few shallow breahts, "and imagined she was you. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#imagination

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#imagination

I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what I imagine he does when we're not together." "And what is that?" prodded the stout man. "He's a superhero who saves people in danger, because he saved me and my brother from dying in a fire a couple of years ago. Noah is better than Batman." The crowd chuckled. "I love you, too, lil'bro. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#katie-mcgarry #little-brother #noah-hutchins #pushing-the-limits #sweet