QuotaBillsImagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde
Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin
The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant
My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett
The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison
There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno
Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown
He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert
The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe
It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein
All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
- C S Lewis
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman
Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood
The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy
Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
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
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell
I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman
I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes
Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett
A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling
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
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins
Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien