You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
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
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-Thomas A. Edison
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John Lennon
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert Szent Györgyi
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-Jules De Gaultier
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"
