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 unconscious mind stores the memory of what was suppressed and what could be."Herbert Marcuse
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The horizon of our experience is not a limit but an invitation to deeper understanding."Edmund Husserl
"Imagination is not mere fantasy but a fundamental faculty through which we grasp the essence of things."Edmund Husserl
"The imagination is the beginning of creation."Walter Benjamin
"Consistency and obedience are the last refuges of the unimaginative."Paul Feyerabend
"Knowledge without imagination is empty."Paul Feyerabend
"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."Paul Feyerabend
"In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true."Alfred North Whitehead
"Imagination can be regarded as the greatest gift possible to the human mind."Alfred North Whitehead
"Imagination is not fantasy but a way of grasping reality."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Karl Popper
"Imagination is the gateway to possibility."Karl Popper
"Imagination is more fundamental than knowledge."Paul Feyerabend
"Imagination constrained by logic is imagination imprisoned."Paul Feyerabend
"Imagination is what sets humans apart."Noam Chomsky
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination."Alfred North Whitehead
"The human being is inherently a creature of imagination."Alfred North Whitehead
"The capacity for wonder is not lost in adulthood; it is merely dormant."Alfred North Whitehead
"Understanding another culture is an act of imagination."Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Imagination is not the enemy of science; it is its foundation."Paul Feyerabend
"The greatest discoveries often come from asking the simplest questions."Karl Popper
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world."Karl Popper
"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge."Ludwig von Mises
"Imagination is more important than understanding."Alfred North Whitehead
"The power of imagination is the foundation of all progress."Alfred North Whitehead
"Children are natural scientists; we must preserve that curiosity rather than crushing it with conformity."Noam Chomsky
"Imagination is blocked by the belief that something cannot be otherwise."Noam Chomsky
"The capacity to imagine alternatives is the first step toward building them."Noam Chomsky
"The exotic is simply the unfamiliar viewed with attention."Claude Lévi-Strauss