It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Imagination
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-Pablo Picasso
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
Things are only impossible until they're not.
-Jean Luc Picard
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"
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will.
-John Green
"Paper Towns"
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Imagination rules the world.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John Lennon
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
