Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Jonas Salk

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam Smith

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Franz Kafka

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Mike Krzyzewski

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.
Mike Krzyzewski

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

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Meryl Streep

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath

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

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Ray Bradbury

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
Charles Horton Cooley

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Maria Montessori

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
John Burroughs