Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
~ Lauren Bacall

''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
~ Richard Bach

Man is an imagining being.
~ Gaston Bachelard

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

When you stop having dreams and ideals -- well, you might as well stop altogether.
~ Marian Anderson

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
~ Dr. Robert Anthony

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.
~ Madame Belazy

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.
~ E. T. Bell

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
~ John Berger

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.
~ Sandra Bernhard

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
~ Robert Bierstedt

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
~ William Blake

What is now proved was only once imagined.
~ William Blake

Imagination rules the world.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
~ Dorothea Brande

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
~ Andre Breton

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
~ Gene Brown

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
~ Les Brown