Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
Quotations
Imagination
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-George Smith Patton
"War as I Knew It"
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
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-Thomas A. Edison
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will.
-John Green
"Paper Towns"
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
-Anne Sexton
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert Szent Györgyi
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"
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things are only impossible until they're not.
-Jean Luc Picard
