Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"In the face of despair, imagination becomes a revolutionary act."Maxine Greene
"We suffer not from too much imagination but from too little."Maxine Greene
"Learning should expand our horizons and possibilities."Malcolm Knowles
"Imagination is the ability to think in the subjunctive mood, about what might happen if..."Jerome Bruner
"Imagination allows us to transcend the boundaries of experience."Jerome Bruner
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Benjamin Bloom
"Imagination is the genesis of creation."Benjamin Bloom
"Empathy is not sympathy; it is imaginatively entering into another's experience."Nel Noddings
"Imagination is the capacity to imagine things as if they could be otherwise. This is what allows us to create meaning in our lives."Maxine Greene
"The capacity to imagine alternatives is what separates humans from other animals. We must preserve and nurture this capacity."Maxine Greene
"We need to cultivate what I call 'social imagination'—the ability to imagine a more just world."Maxine Greene
"The imagination is not a luxury. It is essential to moral and political life."Maxine Greene
"Curiosity is not diminished by age; it is transformed by experience."Malcolm Knowles
"Adults bring their hopes, fears, and dreams to the learning environment."Malcolm Knowles
"Imagination does not mean to invent something out of nothing; it means to construct from experience."Maria Montessori
"Education without imagination produces technicians, not thinkers."Benjamin Bloom
"The capacity to be puzzled is the very basis of wanting to know things."Jerome Bruner
"The great achievers of history were those who could see beyond the constraints of their time."Jerome Bruner
"The gift of human language is that it allows us to speak of things that don't exist yet."Jerome Bruner
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."Johann Pestalozzi
"Imagination creates possibility."Johann Pestalozzi
"Imagination aids the development of thought and is necessary for scientific activity."Maria Montessori
"The child's imagination is the seed of all future human achievement."Maria Montessori
"Imagination is the gateway to all possibility."Friedrich Schleiermacher
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."Friedrich Schleiermacher
"Curiosity is the direct index of the vitality of thought."John Dewey
"Imagination is the free play of the mind."John Dewey
"The human mind is capable of unlimited growth and development."John Amos Comenius
"Imagination is the gateway to infinite possibilities."John Amos Comenius
"The imagination knows no bounds or limitations."John Amos Comenius