It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Imagination
Don't expect anything original from an echo.
-Anonymous
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert Szent Györgyi
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
-Antoine De Saint Exupéry
"Flight to Arras"
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
-John Dewey
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Joseph Joubert
Some stories are true that never happened.
-Elie Wiesel
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
-Oscar Wilde
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-Pablo Picasso
