Which One’s Real?

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

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

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

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

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

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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

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

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

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

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

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

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

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

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