Imagination Quotes

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

16884 quotes

M
"Imagination is more important than knowledge in creating change."
Michel Bakunin
M
"Imagination is the first casualty when freedom is surrendered."
Michel Bakunin
A
"Imagination and creativity are weapons more powerful than any military arsenal."
Antonio Gramsci
E
"The greatest poverty is poverty of imagination and spirit."
Emma Goldman
E
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it differently."
Emma Goldman
M
"I dream of a new age of curiosity."
Michel Foucault
M
"The future will belong to those who can imagine it."
Michel Foucault
"Imagination is the faculty that allows humans to transcend their circumstances."
Friedrich Engels
"Imagination constrained by poverty cannot flower into creation."
Friedrich Engels
J
"He who is devoid of the power of imagination is devoid of the power of reasoning."
Jeremy Bentham
"The mind of man is capable of anything."
John Stuart Mill
M
"Power does not negate freedom; rather, the exercise of freedom always occurs within and through relations of power."
Michel Foucault
M
"Language does not reflect reality; rather, it constitutes the very world we take to be natural and given."
Michel Foucault
"An active and inquisitive mind finds nourishment even in what would be poison to a sluggish one."
John Stuart Mill
E
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
Edmund Burke
J
"Imagination is the beginning of creation and the architect of possibility."
Jeremy Bentham
P
"Imagination is more important than reality."
Prince Metternich
Q
"Imagination is the gift that separates humanity from mere existence."
Queen Victoria
W
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man."
William Gladstone
E
"Mere imagination offers the mind solace in times of strife and uncertainty."
Edmund Burke
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Wilhelm II
"Imagination creates infinite possibilities."
Wilhelm II
Q
"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."
Queen Victoria
Q
"In imagination, we are unlimited; in reality, we must compromise."
Queen Victoria
"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants."
John Stuart Mill
"As it is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so it is that there should be different experiments of living."
John Stuart Mill
"Imagination without knowledge is dangerous; knowledge without imagination is dull."
Wilhelm II
"The imagination can envision futures that reality will later confirm."
Wilhelm II
"Imagination is the first step toward all progress and all greatness."
John Stuart Mill
E
"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity."
Edmund Burke