It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Imagination is essential for understanding, empathy, and hope.
In this quote, Ursula K. Le Guin emphasizes the vital role of imagination in human experience. She suggests that imagination is not just a creative tool, but a necessary foundation for perceiving the world, fostering compassion for others, and nurturing hope for the future, underlining its importance across both scientific and childlike perspectives.
Themes
ImaginationPerceptionCompassionHopeCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about the power of creativity in innovation.
More from Ursula K. Le Guin
All quotes βIn reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. βDo they expect students not to be anarchists?β he said. βWhat else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Similar quotes
I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.
Dwight L. MoodyRead
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
George Bernard ShawRead
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl SaganRead
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric HofferRead
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
HoraceRead
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
George HerbertRead