You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

(You cannot control your imagination’s pictures.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

What our eyes see, our imagination can no longer see. The same thing cannot be the object of both kinds of seeing.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.

When imagination fails, compassion and humaneness dwindle and atrophy along with it. Unleavened by imagination, the variety and richness of life turn into flat abstractions; people become objects to be manipulated — with the social consequences we know all too well.

Constant interruptions are the destruction of imagination.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination.

your brain can’t tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.