The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
Henry David Thoreau

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

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

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

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
Deepak Chopra

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

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

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles de Gaulle