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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum on imagination

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
Kerry Thornley on imagination

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Azar Nafisi on imagination

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Alexander Chase on imagination

There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
Frank Leahy on imagination

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein on imagination

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein on imagination

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato on imagination

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein on imagination

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein on imagination

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe on imagination

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas Jefferson on imagination

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis on imagination

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau on imagination

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon on imagination

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde on imagination

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan on imagination

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum on imagination

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken on imagination

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon on imagination