When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. – Emile Coue
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. – Maxwell Maltz
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. – William Irwin Thompson
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. – Susan Sarandon
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. – Bryant H. McGill
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
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. – Lord Chesterfield
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. – Marquis de Sade
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back? – Christina Aguilera
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. – R. D. Laing
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. – Emile M. Cioran
Man lives by imagination. – Havelock Ellis
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
Imagination creates reality. – Richard Wagner
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. – Wallace Stevens
