Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Imagination
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
Reality cannot breathe without imagination.
-Lionel Suggs
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
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"
Being unimaginative is only a problem when you are easily bored.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
-Oscar Wilde
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
-G. K. Chesterton
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
