Born Quote by Roger Ebert

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

— Brennan Manning

The mind plays tricks. It borrows from everyday life and plays out its own fantasy.

— Gaius

“Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality. —Christ Firth, from Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World”

— Alberto Cairo

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

— E. O. Wilson

“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.…

— Ernest Hemingway

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

— Wallace Stevens

“Imagination is everything. It is the key to coming attractions.—Albert Einstein”

— Dawson Church

Henry Corbin creates the world - most of all his examination of the imagination and what the imagination was for him. Some philosophers would…

— Ben Chasny

“The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the…

— Edmund Burke

“Imaginative mind is the seed of every dream and every vision. It always starts from our minds before the manifestation.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“The philosopher Edmund Burke said “there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the…

— Sean Patrick

“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for…

— Jonathan Gottschall