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Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown

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

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

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

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

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

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

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

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

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

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

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

A dreamer and a thinker understood the value of imagination. He called his imagination a "holy curiosity." - Albert Einstein

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

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Gerard M. Edelman

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

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

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