He is the true enchanter whose spell operates not upon the senses but upon the imagination and the heart.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Imagination has rules but we can only guess what they are.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination and though we do not believe in it it still haunts our apprehensions.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Memories imagination old sentiments and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.