Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

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"The creation of Macondo represents the creation of a world."
Paulo Freire
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"Let us imagine a child becoming passionate about creation and discovery."
Maria Montessori
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"The adult has forgotten how to play, but the child knows instinctively that play is serious business."
Maria Montessori
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Maria Montessori
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"A child's mind is like fertile soil ready to receive seeds of knowledge."
Maria Montessori
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"Imagination is the faculty through which we transcend the merely actual"
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"To imagine is everything, to know is to believe in something and to build is to create."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"The imagination is the creative faculty of mind."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The power of imagination in a child exceeds the wisdom of the most learned scholar."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Imagination is the chief instrument of the good life."
John Dewey
"The imagination is the gateway to all human progress and achievement."
John Amos Comenius
"Imagination without discipline is chaos; discipline without imagination is death."
John Amos Comenius
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"Imagination is the gateway to infinite possibility."
Friedrich Hegel
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"The imagination is not a deceiver but a revealer of hidden possibilities."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The capacity to imagine a better world is the first step toward creating it."
Paulo Freire
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"Imagination does not mean to invent something out of nothing; it means to construct from the experiences we have had."
Maria Montessori
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"To spark the child's imagination is to unlock the doors to infinite possibility."
Maria Montessori
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"The painter should not paint only what he sees, but what he will see."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"The human imagination is boundless and worthy of cultivation."
John Amos Comenius
"The imaginative child becomes the innovative adult."
John Amos Comenius
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what might be."
John Amos Comenius
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey
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"Imagination is the medium in which we contemplate the possible."
John Dewey
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"Imagination is the bridge between sensibility and reason."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Imagination is the eye of the soul."
Ibn Sina
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"Imagination bridges the gap between what is and what might be."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"Imagination is the only limit to what we can achieve."
Stefania Albanesi
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"Imagination is the spark that ignites innovation."
Stefania Albanesi
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"There is nothing worse than imagination without taste."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe