To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-Thomas A. Edison
Quotations
Imagination
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
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 the one weapon in the war against reality.
-Jules De Gaultier
Some stories are true that never happened.
-Elie Wiesel
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
-Anne Sexton
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
Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
