Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

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

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

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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

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.

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

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.

Imagination rules the world.

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

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

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Humor was not important only for me humor was important for this nation for centuries to survive you know.

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life.

There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.