Reflection

Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Imagination means nothing without doing. - Charlie Chaplin

He'll have us going to the moon yet. - Unknown

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy. - Claes Oldenburg

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

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination. - Emily Dickinson

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me. - Walter Cronkite

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

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

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. - Dr. Seuss

Attitude is everything - shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll be among the stars. - Les Brown

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

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

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

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

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

It's a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon. - Kermit The Frog

When witches go riding and black cats are seen,
The moon laughs and whispers, 'tis near Halloween. - Unknown

Nudist Colony Halloween parties are especially scary. They give the word 'moon' a new cruel meaning. - Ray Palla

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

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

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

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

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

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

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

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