John Lennon Lines

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Suntan: A pigment of your imagination. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

If we'd known we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder. - George Harrison

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

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

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

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

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. - Mark Batterson

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

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

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

Every person on this earth is full of great possibilities that can be realized through imagination, effort, and perseverance. - Scott B Kaufman

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

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

Reporter to Beatles during their first US tour: "How do you find America?"
Ringo Starr: "Turn left at Greenland." - Ringo Starr

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