Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."

Orison Swett Marden

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."

Norman Podhoretz

"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

"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."

Jessamyn West

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."

Duane Michals

"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."

Ursula K. Le Guin

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

Theodor Geisel

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

Calvin Trillin

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

Pablo Picasso

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Michelangelo

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

George S. Patton

"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."

Simone Weil

"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."

L. Frank Baum

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

Carl Sagan

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."

Paul Gauguin

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."

Lewis Carroll

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

Henry David Thoreau

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

Stephen Covey

"My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!"

Theodor Geisel

"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 B. Leacock

"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."

Ralph Gerard