Which One’s Real?

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

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

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

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

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

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

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

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

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

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. - F Scott Fitzgerald

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins