Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality. Jonas Salk
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. Camille Paglia
For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Maxwell Maltz
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. William Irwin Thompson
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination. Hedy Lamarr
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. Christian Nestell Bovee
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries. Marquis de Sade
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. Terry Pratchett
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. Susan Sarandon
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Bryant H. McGill
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it. Karl Lagerfeld
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. Ursula K. Le Guin
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. Lord Chesterfield
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. Marquis de Sade
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman. Claire Danes
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. Jonathan Sacks