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 more the mind can imagine many things at once, the greater is its power of acting."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Imagination is nothing but decaying sense."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Imagination is the first step toward creation."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Imagination is the architect of reality."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
John Locke
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."
John Locke
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"The power of imagination is greater than the power of knowledge."
Immanuel Kant
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"Imagination is the key that unlocks infinite possibilities."
Immanuel Kant
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"The imagination of man is bounded, and the inventive faculty must have materials to work with."
David Hume
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"Imagination is the faculty that allows us to transcend the limitations of our immediate experience."
David Hume
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"We must imagine a world where all people are equal."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"The imagination is more powerful than knowledge, for it encompasses the entire world."
Baruch Spinoza
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"A man of no imagination shall have no rewards; he shall pass through life in obscurity."
Adam Smith
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"The human imagination has a natural tendency to fill up the blanks in our knowledge with conjecture and probability."
Adam Smith
T
"Imagination is the first step toward creation."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Sense and imagination are one thing."
Thomas Hobbes
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"The imagination of free men is unstoppable."
José de San Martín
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"Curiosity is natural to the mind of man; and interest quickens all our senses."
John Locke
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"The imagination is inconstant and changeable."
David Hume
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"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Imagination is the first step toward understanding reality."
Thomas Hobbes
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"The imagination alone is not sufficient to produce perfection; it requires reason."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Imagination is a passive state of mind wherein the images of external bodies occur to us."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The imagination is our link to the world of sensations; reason is our link to the eternal."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Men are much more likely to discover and invent expedients for attaining any object they already desire, than to discover and invent objects for enjoying the fruits of expedients already in their possession."
Adam Smith
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"The imagination must follow the reality of nature."
David Hume
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"Imagination is the first step toward creating a better world."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Imagination is the forge where revolutions are forged before they begin."
José de San Martín
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"The human spirit cannot be broken by those who lack imagination."
Benito Juárez