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 power of your imagination is only limited by your willingness to use it."
Raj Patel
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"The ability to imagine a different future is the first step toward creating it."
Angus Deaton
"Fear of the unknown has stopped fewer explorers than lack of imagination."
Hernando de Soto
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"We underestimate our capacity for creating more equitable systems"
Thomas Piketty
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"Imagination is required to conceive of different economic systems"
Thomas Piketty
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"Ideas are more powerful than any physical force."
Douglass North
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"Institutional change begins with a change in ideas about what is possible."
Douglass North
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"Our imagination about what is possible is often our greatest limitation."
Elinor Ostrom
"The greatest discovery is not of new lands, but of new possibilities within oneself."
Hernando de Soto
"Every person carries within them a world yet to be explored."
Hernando de Soto
"Imagination is the engine of human progress."
Hernando de Soto
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"Imagination is the capacity to see beyond current circumstances"
Angus Deaton
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"Imagination is the capacity to envision better worlds"
Angus Deaton
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"We must redesign institutions for a more equal future."
Thomas Piketty
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"We inherit systems, and we can redesign them."
Thomas Piketty
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"Imagination about alternatives is the first step toward change."
Thomas Piketty
"In my journey, I realized that imagination and reality are not opposites but partners in discovery."
Hernando de Soto
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"The capability to imagine a better world is a form of power."
Angus Deaton
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"Imagination about alternative systems is the first step toward creating them."
Thomas Piketty
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"Imagination is the birthplace of all innovation."
Amartya Sen
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"Imagination is the engine of human progress."
Amartya Sen
"To explore is to honor the human capacity for wonder."
Hernando de Soto
"The greatest discoveries are often hidden in plain sight, awaiting only courageous eyes."
Hernando de Soto
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
James Tobin
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"Imagination about alternative futures requires first understanding our past."
Thomas Piketty
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"Imagination limited by economic necessity is imagination in chains."
Thomas Piketty
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"Imagination constrained by debt is imagination in servitude."
Thomas Piketty
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Anna Schwartz
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"The human capacity for imagination allows us to envision better worlds."
Amartya Sen
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"Institutions shape not just what we can do but what we even imagine doing."
Douglass North