One At A Time

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

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

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

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

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

Logic will get you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

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

If life gives you lemons, make grape juice. Then sit back and let the world wonder how you did it. - Unknown

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

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

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

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

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

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky