Imagination Quotes

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

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"When we step outside the magical circle of reality, we can entertain even the wildest suppositions."
Washington Irving
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"Imagination is the liveliest faculty of the human mind, and the most prone to error."
Washington Irving
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"The true measure of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Washington Irving
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"The imagination is more powerful than all the facts in all the world."
Herman Melville
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"The greatest gift is the ability to imagine better."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The mind of man is capable of anything, because everything is in it."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became in turn not the material of my every-day existence, but in very deed that existence itself."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The mind has a much greater extent than the body."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I dwell in possibility."
Emily Dickinson
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"I dwell in Possibility with far surpassing power of Prose."
Emily Dickinson
"Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Imagine freely."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
François Mauriac
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"Imagination is more important than fact."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Herman Melville
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."
Anatole France
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"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see."
Anatole France
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"The imagination is more important than knowledge."
Anatole France
"Imagination is where the only real freedom exists."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The imagination is the only freedom that cannot be taken from us."
François Mauriac
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"Imagination is the only mirror that shows us who we might become."
François Mauriac
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"Dare to open a window unto Heaven."
Emily Dickinson
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"I dwell in Possibility, a fairer House than Prose."
Emily Dickinson
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"Curiosity, I take it, is the bent of the mind that keeps the world going."
Henry James
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"Imagination is the very engine of human progress."
Herman Melville
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures, therefore its the means of accomplishing all things."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Imagination without courage is just fantasy."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Imagination is the gateway to infinity."
Romain Rolland
"Imagination transcends reality."
Romain Rolland