It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Imagination
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Joseph Joubert
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"
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-Jules De Gaultier
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
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
-John Lennon
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
-Anne Sexton
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
-John Dewey
