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Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. - Gunter Grass

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist