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Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. - Herodotus

One may have good eyes and yet see nothing. - Italian proverb

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. - Seneca

The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. - Indian Proverb

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. - Harry Edwards

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

I've kissed so many women I can do it with my eyes closed. - Henny Youngman

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

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterward. - Thomas Fuller

Life is a storybook, and those who do not travel only read but a page. - Ravi Zacharias

Behold the warranty. The bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away. - Unknown

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. - Sally Field

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

I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun. - Charles Hanson Towne

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words. - Corey Ford

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. - Billy Graham

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

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily we do our eyes. - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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

Get thee glass eyes;
And, like a scurvy politician, seem
To see the things thou dost not. - William Shakespeare

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

That's what storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again. - Walt Disney

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace, and your soul in the joy of Christ. - Thomas Merton

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

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

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. - Niccolo Machiavelli

My mother reads the obituary page every day, but she could never understand how people always die in alphabetical order. - Frank Carson

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

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

You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to things you don't want to feel. - Renee Slanksy

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

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

Music is amoral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. - Plato

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. - Criss Jami

Behind my smile is a broken heart; behind my laugh I'm falling apart; behind my eyes are tears at night; behind my body is a soul trying to fight. - Unknown