Famous Quotes

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Horace Walpole on Imagination

More quotes about Imagination

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

  Dr. Seuss on Imagination

• "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."

  Albert Einstein on Imagination

• "Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?"

  Sun Tzu on Imagination

More quotes by Horace Walpole

• "Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school."

• "I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

• "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

• "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

• "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."