Which One's Real?

Imagination is the eye of the soul. - Joseph Joubert

You have to hold onto your fantasy. - Betsey Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

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

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

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

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

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

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

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - Oscar Wilde

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality. - Albert Hadley

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Man either goes forward in imagination or remains imprisoned in his senses. - Unknown

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. - Catherine the Great

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

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

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

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

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. - Cornelia Funke

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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 cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. - Walt Disney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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