Imagination Quotes

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

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"That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Imagination is the compass by which we navigate unknown territories."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The imagination of a child often grasps truths that age obscures."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"Every person carries within them a universe waiting to be discovered."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The mind is its own place and can make a heaven of hell."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The talent one has is for living, not for writing or painting."
Willa Cather
"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge."
Louisa May Alcott
"The mind of a child is like the mind of an artist; it dreams without restraint."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The imagination of youth, properly cultivated, becomes the wisdom of age."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"Imagination is the compass of the soul, pointing toward possibilities unseen."
Washington Irving
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"Imagination is the first step of all creation; what we envision, we can eventually manifest."
Washington Irving
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"I dwell in Possibility."
Emily Dickinson
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"To shut our Eyes is Travel."
Emily Dickinson
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"Like Trains of Cars on Tracks of Plush."
Emily Dickinson
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"Let Us play Yesterday."
Emily Dickinson
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"In dreams, we are free from the tyranny of reason."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it vividly enough."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The imagination can conceive what the world cannot yet manifest."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The man who does not read lives only one life."
Mark Twain
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"As all things are mixed, so all things are possible."
Herman Melville
"Imagination is the compass by which the spirit navigates the unknown."
James Fenimore Cooper
"The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In dreams, we enter a world that is entirely our own."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I find myself drawn to darkness as moths to flame."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I dwell in the spaces between reality and dream."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I dwell in possibility."
Emily Dickinson
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"Imagination is the only weapon against tyranny."
Emily Dickinson
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"Imagination sets the boundaries of what becomes real."
Emily Dickinson
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"There are certain periods when, in the ripe age of the mind, the imagination delights in emboldening the experiences of the senses."
Washington Irving