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
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"Consistency and obedience are the last refuges of the unimaginative."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Knowledge without imagination is empty."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
Paul Feyerabend
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"In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"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
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Karl Popper
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"Imagination is the gateway to possibility."
Karl Popper
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"Imagination is more fundamental than knowledge."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Imagination constrained by logic is imagination imprisoned."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Imagination is what sets humans apart."
Noam Chomsky
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The human being is inherently a creature of imagination."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"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
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"Imagination is not the enemy of science; it is its foundation."
Paul Feyerabend
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"The greatest discoveries often come from asking the simplest questions."
Karl Popper
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world."
Karl Popper
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"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Imagination is more important than understanding."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The power of imagination is the foundation of all progress."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Children are natural scientists; we must preserve that curiosity rather than crushing it with conformity."
Noam Chomsky
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"Imagination is blocked by the belief that something cannot be otherwise."
Noam Chomsky
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"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