Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Imagination
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
-Oscar Wilde
Being unimaginative is only a problem when you are easily bored.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
-Oscar Wilde
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-Pablo Picasso
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-Lauren Bacall
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-Thomas A. Edison
I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy; those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
-Susan Sarandon "Susan Sarandon"
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
-G. K. Chesterton
The biggest treasure of a human being is his "power of imagination". Instead
of utilizing it for making a discovery or melody or exploring the avenues of
business...we waste it on imaginary worries and finding fictitious Gods to resolve
it.
-Deep Trivedi
