“Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
“Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.”
“There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.”
“When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.”
“Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.”