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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

Ben Okri

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity

George Santayana

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

Albert Einstein

Imagination, industry, and intelligence - "the three I s" - are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

Kitty O\'Neill Collins

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

Frederick Henry Hedge

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.

Mozart

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henry Louis Mencken

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination.

Marcel Proust

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In literature and art memory is a synonyme for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Robert Aris Willmott

Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought.

Giambattista Basile

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope

Ursula K. Le Guin

Abundance ~ An endless supply of water, trees heavily laden with fruit, a sun that shines every day, seasons in their never-ending cycle, a constant supply of air, an infinite wellspring of love, so many people to share with, an eternal cascade of imagination and creativity, unlimited lessons and growth, much valuable work to do, limitless potential for expanding and opening our hearts, unending forests to wander, evermore books to read and write, a vast mind of thoughts to explore, overflowing goodness, exponential wonder, overwhelming mercy, ~ a copious abundance of abundance to ponder.

Jinjee and Storm Talifero

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

Mrs. C.W. Earle

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination

Voltaire

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load

James L. Muresell

If I need a cause for celebration Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind I rely on my imagination And I dream of an imaginary time.

Billy Joel

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen R. Covey

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

James Russell Lowell

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Richard Sennett

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