Imagination Quotes

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

16884 quotes

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"The exotic reveals possibilities for being that our own culture may have foreclosed."
Clifford Geertz
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"Betwixt and between lies the space of infinite possibility, where creativity flourishes."
Victor Turner
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"Symbols work best when they operate below the threshold of conscious awareness, shaping thought and feeling."
Victor Turner
V
"The betwixt and between is where creativity flourishes because all constraints are temporarily suspended."
Victor Turner
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"Understanding requires imaginative entry into unfamiliar contexts."
Clifford Geertz
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"Understanding requires imaginative leap into otherness."
Clifford Geertz
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"Imagination shapes reality"
Gregory Bateson
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"The anthropologist must become a child again to see with fresh eyes."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"Understanding different cultures expands our sense of what is possible for human beings."
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
A
"Imagination creates the future of culture."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Alfred Kroeber
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"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
Gregory Bateson
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"The development of imagination leaves its mark on all intellectual work."
Margaret Mead
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"The sacred symbol bridges the gap between what is and what might be."
Victor Turner
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"Imagination is the engine of civilization."
Oswald Spengler
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"Imagination transcends limitation."
Oswald Spengler
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"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what might be."
Gregory Bateson
B
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what might be in human societies."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange."
Arnold Toynbee
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"Each culture has its own internal logic that must be understood on its own terms."
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
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"Imagination is the gateway to all possibilities."
Christopher Dawson
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"Imagination creates the future."
Christopher Dawson
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"The imagination is the only tool we have to remake the world."
Margaret Mead
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"Imagination is the space where possibilities reside before they become real."
Margaret Mead
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"Human societies are experiments in living, ongoing and never final."
Alfred Kroeber
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"In understanding culture, we expand our sense of the possible."
Alfred Kroeber
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"In studying culture, we discover that humanity is far more varied than we imagined."
Alfred Kroeber
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"The imagination is not opposed to reality, but is our primary tool for understanding it."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"Imagination is the birthplace of all revolutions, both of spirit and of state."
Oswald Spengler
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"The mind is a strange land that produces what it dreams."
Gregory Bateson