We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. – Jimi Hendrix
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. – Walt Disney
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. – William Blake
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. – Anais Nin
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment. – Tony Robbins
Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. – Ernest Hemingway
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. – Edgar Allan Poe
Imagination is the true magic carpet. – Norman Vincent Peale
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. – Helen Rowland
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. – Ray Bradbury
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. – Carl Jung
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. – Marcus Aurelius
The power of imagination makes us infinite. – John Muir
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. – Bill Hicks
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. – Henry Ward Beecher
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. – William Blake