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Imagination is intelligence having fun. - George Scialabra

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

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

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

There are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. - J K Rowling

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

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

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

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

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. - Charles F. Kettering

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

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

My dad's pants kept creeping up on him. By 65 he was just a pair of pants and a head. - Jeff Altman

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

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

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

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

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

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

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

I've never run a marathon because I haven't bought a pair of shorts and arrived at the start line. - Sue Perkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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