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Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

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

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

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. - Malala Yousafzai

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

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

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - 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

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

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

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato

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

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

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

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

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

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

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