QuotaBillsIllusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali
A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Before imagination can flow, you must let go. - Unknown
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero
The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H L Mencken
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination. - Courteney Cox
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland
Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley
Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great
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
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
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
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of the other of us has to go. - Oscar Wilde
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
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein
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
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway
Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley
That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney
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
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain
I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman
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
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins
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
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
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
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
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist
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