What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
—John Keats
Imagination is more important than knowledge…
—Albert Einstein
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
—Mark Twain
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes… as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure.
—Adrienne Rich
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
—Jack Kerouac
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
—H. L. Mencken
There is a fifth dimension beyond those known to man. It is a dimension vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between the pit of his fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area called the Twilight Zone.
—Rod Serling
Joan of Arc: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God.
Robert: They come from your imagination.
Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us.
—George Bernard Shaw
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H. L. Mencken
Writer's block is what you get if you're too full of yourself and trying to be García Márquez. You sit and stare at the wall and nothing happens for you. It's like imagining you're a tree and trying to sprout leaves. Once you come to your senses and accept who you are, then there's no problem. I'm not García Márquez. I'm a late-middle-aged midlist fair-to-middling writer with a comfortable midriff, and it gives me quite a bit of pleasure.
—Garrison Keillor
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
—Anatole France
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
—Cary Grant
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
—Joyce Carol Oates
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
—Joseph Joubert
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson