QuotaBillsThe power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir
Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno
He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert
I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox
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
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote
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
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst
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
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain
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
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung
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
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge
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
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
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden
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