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