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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. -- John Keats
I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. -- Andrew Wyeth
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. -- Joseph Conrad
I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose. -- Paul Theroux
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group. -- Gerald Edelman
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities. -- Alison Gopnik
I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination? -- Nicolas Cage
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? -- James Fenimore Cooper
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized. -- Isabel Allende
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Truth is a matter of the imagination. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. -- Marquis de Sade
Truth depends upon the intensity of imagination, not upon facts. -- Neville Goddard
The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination. -- Nolan Bushnell
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others. -- Patrick White
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. -- Edmund Burke
The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth. -- John Keats
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. -- C. S. Lewis
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. -- Christopher Fry
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination. -- Douglas Adams
A photograph gives us the naked truth,which has to be clothed by the imagination. -- Francis Meadow Sutcliffe
Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. -- L. Adams Beck
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth? -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not -- John Keats
Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery. -- William Stanley Jevons
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. -- Karl Kraus
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination. -- John Keats
A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it. -- Michael Pena
I believe fervently in the nature, in truth and imagination, I believe in the blood, in life, words, and motivations. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free. -- Yanni
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. -- Charles Baudelaire
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free. -- Andrew Wyeth
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination. -- Dennis Potter
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. -- Shirley Hazzard
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood. -- William Wordsworth
I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things. -- John Ruskin
So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream. -- William Faulkner
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination. -- Ralph Eugene Meatyard
There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. -- Jean Giraudoux
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. -- William Butler Yeats
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends. -- George Santayana
To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you. -- Common
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it. -- Chris Priestley
Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view? -- Arsene Houssaye

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