Reflection

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

He'll have us going to the moon yet. - Unknown

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

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

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. - Rita Mae Brown

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the imagination. - Emily Dickinson

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. - Ravi Zacharias

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection. - Vauvenargues

At the sum of all fears, the only thing that is painted... is a reflection of you. - Lionel Suggs

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

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

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

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. - Stephen Covey

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

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

I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. - Terri Guillemets

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

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

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

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

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. - Norman Cousins

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

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. - James Dent

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

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

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. - Havelock Ellis

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

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