Which One’s Real?

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy. - George R.R. Martin

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

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

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

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

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

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called 'licking the earth.' - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. - Tim O'Brien