Famous Quotes about wisdom

T.S. Garp quote #194 from Serenity's Dream: A Collection of Tales and Poems about Mystical Journeys.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere - Carl Sagan
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Joyce Carol Oates quote #179 from I'll Take You There

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound advanced age never can we anticipate being older than we are or wiser if were exhausted its impossible to anticipate being strong as in the grip of a dream we rarely understand that were dreaming and will escape by the simplest of methods opening our eyes.
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Patricia McLinn quote #186 from Almost a Bride

Theres three things Ive seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. Its no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. Its knowing where you fit in this world being able to go after your dreams and love.
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Philip K. Dick quote #36 from A Scanner Darkly

Were all dreaming Arctor said. If the last to know hes an addict is the addict then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real or just induced as a contact lunacy by the situation. Donna always was a pivot point of reality for him for her this was the basic natural question. He wished he could answer.
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Patricia A. McKillip quote #51 from Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy

The idea of fairyland fascinates me because its one of those things like mermaids and dragons that doesnt really exist but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the beholder who is usually a fabricator of fantasy. So what good is it this enchanted fickle land which in some tales bodes little good to humans and in others is the land of peace and perpetual summer where everyone longs to be Perhaps its just a glimpse of our deepest wishes and greatest fears the farthest boundaries of our imaginations. We go there because we can we come back because we must. What we see there becomes our tales.
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