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

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.

A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

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

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

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.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this at any time it can be quietly led.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination as I try to do.

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.

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.