Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

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

Some stories are true that never happened.
Elie Wiesel

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

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Theodor Geisel

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it.
Duane Michals

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London