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Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination. - Arthur Pinero

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

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

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

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

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier

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

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

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

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

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

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

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

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

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. - Sydney Smith