To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. – Arthur Conan Doyle
The imagination is the spur of delights… all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? – Marquis de Sade
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute. – Franklin P. Adams
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. – Mason Cooley
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. – John Keats
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. – Thomas Huxley
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. – Mason Cooley
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. – Edward Hopper
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. – Joseph Joubert
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. – Noam Chomsky
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. – Steven Spielberg
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. – Lily Tomlin
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor. – Paul Ryan
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. – H. G. Wells
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese
