Jules Verne Quote

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Reality
• Imagination

Imagination creates reality.

Richard Wagner

• Reality
• Imagination

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

Salman Rushdie

• Reality

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

• Reality
• Imagination

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Edgar Allan Poe

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Steven Spielberg

• Reality
• Imagination

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Stefan Zweig

• Misfortune

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

• Reality
• Imagination

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Franz Schubert

• Reality

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Virginia Woolf

The people who call my work 'abstract' are imbeciles... what they call 'abstract' is in fact the purest realism, the reality of which is not represented by external form but by the idea behind it, the essence of the work.

Constantin Brancusi

• Reality
• Idea
• Essence
• Sculpture

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

Erwin Schrodinger

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Reality

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

David Livingstone

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Anatole France

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Franz Kafka

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

• Reality

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Jorge Luis Borges

• Reality

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Imagination

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Inspirational
• Famous