Imagination Quotes

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

16884 quotes

"Imagination is the only faculty that remains unfettered in the consumer society."
Zygmunt Bauman
"Imagination is resistance in a world that demands conformity."
Zygmunt Bauman
G
"Imagination precedes reality."
Georg Simmel
G
"Imagination is the engine of progress."
Georg Simmel
C
"We live in the mind, in ideas, in imagination."
Charles Cooley
A
"Imagination is constrained by social structures but can also transcend them."
Anthony Giddens
A
"Imagination is both constrained by ideology and capable of transcending it."
Anthony Giddens
G
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what might be."
Georg Simmel
C
"We live in our imaginations and in our memories, and in nothing else."
Charles Cooley
C
"What we imagine about others shapes our entire social reality."
Charles Cooley
C
"Our imaginations are the most powerful forces in human nature."
Charles Cooley
"The capacity to wonder, to doubt, and to criticize is what separates humans from machines."
C. Wright Mills
"The future belongs to those who can imagine alternatives to the present order."
C. Wright Mills
A
"Imagination is constrained by the symbolic systems we inherit and the institutional arrangements we inhabit."
Anthony Giddens
C
"Imagination is the key to understanding society; we must imaginatively enter other minds."
Charles Cooley
M
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."
Max Weber
G
"Imagination without judgment produces fantasy; judgment without imagination produces pedantry."
Georg Simmel
H
"That which cannot be imagined cannot be created."
Herbert Spencer
C
"The imagination that peer pressure exerts on our behavior cannot be overstated."
Charles Cooley
M
"Imagination fails before the complexity of actual historical forces."
Max Weber
H
"The imagination is the eye of the soul."
Harriet Martineau
H
"Imagination is the faculty that creates reality."
Harriet Martineau
H
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Herbert Spencer
R
"Imagination allows us to transcend our current circumstances."
Roy Baumeister
R
"Imagination is the only true freedom we possess."
Roy Baumeister
"The real tragedy of modern life is the failure to imagine alternatives to the present."
C. Wright Mills
H
"There is something in the spectacle of the human mind awakening which is truly sublime."
Harriet Martineau
M
"The roots of responsible behavior lie within the strength of human imagination."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
M
"Imagination is the gateway to possibility and innovation."
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
H
"The mind of man is capable of anything."
Herbert Spencer