"It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others."
― Alexander McCall Smith
Topic(s):
Imagination
― Alexander McCall Smith
More From Alexander McCall Smith
- "My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we’ve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world."
- "Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology."
- "I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They’ve made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side."
More In Imagination
- "Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination."― John Cameron
- "I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination."― Carlos Fuentes
- "Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."― Simone Weil