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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. – Thomas Carlyle

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. – e. e. cummings

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. – J. K. Rowling

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. – Orison Swett Marden

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

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. – Jean Dubuffet

Imagination is the eye of the soul. – Joseph Joubert

Imagination decides everything. – Blaise Pascal

Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted. – Blaise Pascal

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. – Vincent Van Gogh

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination. – Marcel Proust

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. – John Adams

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. – J. K. Rowling

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. – Arnold J. Toynbee

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. – Samuel Johnson

An idea is salvation by imagination. – Frank Lloyd Wright