Imagination Quotes
The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."Jacques Le Goff
"The future is not written; it is imagined into being."Arnold Toynbee
"The future belongs to those who can imagine what has never been."Arnold Toynbee
"The power of imagination makes us infinite."Margaret Mead
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."Marc Bloch
"Imagination precedes reality in all great achievements."Oswald Spengler
"Every dream contains a fragment of truth."Oswald Spengler
"Understanding the past requires imagination as much as scholarship."Lucien Febvre
"The past is a resource for imagining the future."Lucien Febvre
"Imagination is the bridge between what was and what might be."Jacques Le Goff
"Imagination is the soil from which all human progress grows."Jacques Le Goff
"Imagination unlocks infinite possibilities."Fernand Braudel
"Imagination is the only force that can resist the tyranny of reality."Oswald Spengler
"Imagination is the faculty that allows us to transcend our immediate circumstances."Arnold Toynbee
"Man is the only creature that has the ability to reshape his own environment and to make long-term plans."Margaret Mead
"Imagination is the foundation of all progress."Margaret Mead
"To understand history is to understand that the world could have been otherwise."Lucien Febvre
"Historical understanding requires us to recover the strangeness of the past, not to domesticate it."Lucien Febvre
"To study history is to develop a sense of the possible—what humans have done, they can do again."Marc Bloch
"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."Michel Crouzet
"Dreams provided access to truth unavailable through waking reason."Jacques Le Goff
"Imagination is the faculty that allows us to transcend our present circumstances."Arnold Toynbee
"We must imagine different futures to create them."Eric Hobsbawm
"The historian who cannot imagine is blind."Marc Bloch
"Understanding requires us to live imaginatively in other centuries."Marc Bloch
"The study of history is the study of how human societies imagine themselves into being."Lucien Febvre
"To study the past is to multiply the possible futures we might imagine."Lucien Febvre
"To understand another time is to expand the boundaries of what we know to be possible."Lucien Febvre
"The archive is full of stories of people who tried to imagine different futures for themselves."Lucien Febvre
"The historian's greatest gift is the ability to surprise themselves with what they discover."Lucien Febvre