Famous Quotes

"Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling."

Henry David Thoreau 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 Henry David Thoreau

• "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

• "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

• "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

• "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

• "The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."