Which One’s Real?

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

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

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

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

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

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

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

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

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

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C S Lewis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea. - Latin Proverb

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

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

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

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

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? - Carol Burnett

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

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

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

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