In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
In reality serial killers are of average intelligence.
It takes intelligence to make real comedy and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it an arid science. In reality however it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything but I wanted to be an actress.
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on based on preliminary successes.
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.