"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.












You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.
More Ursula K. Le Guin quotes
"The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
"Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in ord...
"We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. En...
"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
"Truth is a matter of the imagination.
"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not p...