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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham on imagination

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France on imagination

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on imagination

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon on imagination

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West on imagination

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell on imagination

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.
Chris Brown on imagination

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Gilbert Parker on imagination

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Simon Pegg on imagination

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Rita Dove on imagination

Some stories are true that never happened.
Elie Wiesel on imagination

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
Imran Khan on imagination

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin on imagination

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Duane Michals on imagination

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock on imagination

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.
Elinor Wylie on imagination

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin on imagination

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin on imagination

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Anne Sullivan Macy on imagination

The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens on imagination