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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

From Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

From The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The potential of CRISPR technology is limited only by our imagination.

From The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

Visualization is a powerful tool that allows you to create your reality before it happens.

From How Champions Think by Bob Rotella

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

Every flower is a story waiting to be told.

From The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

The sky is a canvas, and clouds are the paint.

From The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Children’s ability to imagine is what drives their learning and growth.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

The ability to create and believe in fiction is what makes us human.

From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

The telegraph connected people in ways previously unimaginable.

From The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

The writer's job is to create the perfect world.

From On Writing Well by William Zinsser

The future is an open-ended question waiting for our answers.

From The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

Imagination is the blueprint of reality.

From Out of the Ether by Matthew Leising

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.

From The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The potential of AI is limited only by our imagination.

From Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

From What Would Frida Do? by Arianna Davis

The exploration of reality requires both imagination and rigorous logic.

From The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose

Scent has the power to transport us to another place and time.

From The Emperor of Scent by Chandler Burr

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

From The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The ability to think about the future is a gift of childhood.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

The most powerful tool we have is our imagination.

From The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Books are a way to travel without moving your feet.

From The Library Book by Susan Orlean

The mind is the limit; as long as you can imagine something, you can achieve it.

From Running with the Kenyans by Adharanand Finn

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

From Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

From The Greatest: My Own Story by Muhammad Ali

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.

From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

Our perception of air is influenced by both scientific inquiry and poetic imagination.

From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

From Cosmos by Carl Sagan

The story of AI is a story of human ambition and imagination.

From Genius Makers by Cade Metz

Imagination is crucial to our ability to reason and understand the world around us.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

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

From Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He had a vision of the earth beneath our feet that was unlike anything anyone had seen before.

From The Map That Changed the World by Simon Winchester

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.

From The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The world is a big, rich, and complex place for a child.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

The algorithms we create will shape our lives in ways we can't yet imagine.

From The Big Nine by Amy Webb