Imagination Quotes

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

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"It is forbidden to forbid imagination."
Anatole France
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"The illusion is the one thing that liberates us from reality."
Anatole France
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"The imagination is the only freedom tyrants cannot fully control."
François Mauriac
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"Imagination is the only democracy where talent and birth count equally."
François Mauriac
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"To demand 'sense' is the easiest refuge of the non-imaginative"
Henry James
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"The imagination has the power to transform suffering into art"
Henry James
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The great quality of the mind is imagination."
Marcel Proust
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"That faculty of perception which we call imagination, carries with it the seed of all understanding."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Imagination is more important than much knowledge."
Romain Rolland
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Romain Rolland
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"The greatest discoveries come from looking at what everyone else ignores."
François Mauriac
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"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."
François Mauriac
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"The imagination is the great river of the mind. Let it flow unimpeded."
Anatole France
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The imagination is the only weapon against reality."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is merely fact."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Memory is the treasury of the imagination."
Henry James
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"Imagination is the compass by which we navigate the world."
Henry James
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"The world we perceive exists only in our mind."
Marcel Proust
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Marcel Proust
"To recover a spiritual sense of ourselves, we must begin to nurture the imagination."
André Gide
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it before it arrives."
André Gide
"Imagination is the beginning of creation; dream it and you can make it real."
Romain Rolland
"Imagination is the only limit to what we can achieve; the boundaries we set are self-imposed."
Romain Rolland
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"Man's greatest strength is his imagination."
Anatole France
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"Imagination creates the world anew."
Montesquieu
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"Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness; it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom"
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Marcel Proust
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"The real world is known through the imagination."
Marcel Proust