Imagination Failure Quotes

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

One of the amazing things about September 11 is that we lacked the imagination to connect the dots and foresee it.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

To call someone anti-American, indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie, you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good, you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists.

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed.

In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then she placed the world gently in the palm of my hand.

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political, biological or cultural problem. But I want to say that it's at least as much a philosophical and imaginative disaster.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye. Something I must invent and paint; But oh my wit is not Like one of those kind substantives That answer Who and What?

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of imagination. We honestly cannot imagine having reached a state in our own evolution in which we do not fight.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.