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Imagination and reality have little in common
Sep 10, 2025
Few people have the imagination for reality.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
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.
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
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