Can You See It?

Imagination rules the world. - Napoleon

A pigment of your imagination - Archie Bunker

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

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

I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings. - Nas

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. - Joseph Joubert

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood

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

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

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

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

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

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins