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
Quotations
Imagination
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert Szent Györgyi
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-Lauren Bacall
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John Lennon
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
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
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"
