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Category: Reality and Imagination

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1. "We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

2. "Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, Second Series"

Quotations about: Life and Death

3. "Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."

Jane Wagner

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

4. "All fiction may be autobiography, but all autobiography is of course fiction."

Shirley Abbott

Quotations about: Memory

5. "My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

Ursula K. Le Guin

Quotations about: Human

6. "The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Art and Culture

7. "Politics is the enemy of the imagination."

Ian McEwan

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

8. "Let us be realistic and demand the impossible."

graffito - Paris 1968

Quotations about: Inscriptions etc.

9. "Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

Thomas Berger

Quotations about: Art and Culture

10. "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

John Lennon

11. "[...] parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough."

Jane O`Reilly, "The Girl I Left Behind"

Quotations about: Life and Death

12. "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Quotations about: Love -:- Woman and Man

13. "I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

14. "It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."

Walter Bagehot, "The English Constitution"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

15. "Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."

Luigi Pirandello, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

16. "Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."

Luigi Pirandello, "Six Characters in Search of an Author"

Quotations about: Time and Passing

17. "When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."

Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Question and Problem

18. "Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense."

Helen Rowland, "A Guide to Men"

Quotations about: Love

19. "Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Various

20. "Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."

Tom Stoppard

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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21. "Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts."

Brian W. Aldiss

Quotations about: Art and Culture

22. "Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine."

Louis Aragon

23. "It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. "

André Dubus

Quotations about: Time and Passing -:- Various

24. "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

Jules de Gaultier

25. "There's a 50 percent chance of anything - either it happens or it doesn't."

Michael R. Barnes

Quotations about: Question and Problem

26. "Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

Quotations about: Nature and Animals -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

27. "[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form."

Evan Esar, "Esar's Comic Dictionary"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

28. "We are not human beings trying to be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human."

Jacquelyn Small

Quotations about: Human

29. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams

Quotations about: Various

30. "A thousand probabilities does not make one fact."

Italian proverb

31. "Spirituality is basically our relationship with reality."

Chandra Patel

32. "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

33. "Images are nearer reality than cold definitions."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

34. "Become the change you want to see."

Oprah Winfrey

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

35. "The imagination is one of the forces of nature."

Wallace Stevens

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

36. "Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us."

Paul Theroux

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

37. "Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."

Laurette Taylor

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

38. "Poetry is the deification of reality."

Edith Sitwell

Quotations about: Art and Culture

39. "This world is but canvas to our imaginations."

Henry David Thoreau

40. "The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."

James A. Michener

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Life and Death

41. "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."

Aleksandr Pushkin

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

42. "My first line of defense against reality is called sleep."

Ashleigh Brilliant

43. "Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

Stephen King

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

44. "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't; and a sense of humour to console him for what he is."

Horace Walpole

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

45. "Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Science and Technology

46. "Reality is for people who lack imagination."

Anon.

47. "Love is when you don't want to go to sleep because reality is better than a dream."

Anon.

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Love

48. "Imagination is intelligence having fun."

George Scialabba

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

49. "Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on."

Anon.

50. "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."

Charles F. Kettering

Quotations about: Time and Passing

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