4 Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Imagination

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on imagination

209. Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

210. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

258. Science does not know its debt to imagination.

260. The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.