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 imagination transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary."Marcel Proust
"Imagination is the beginning of all creation."Romain Rolland
"Imagination is the key that unlocks infinite possibilities."Romain Rolland
"The principal agent of progress is imagination."André Gide
"The imagination is what takes you beyond the present moment into possibility."André Gide
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Denis Diderot
"Imagination ignites possibility."Denis Diderot
"Imagination is the faculty of freedom."Jean-Paul Sartre
"The fundamental source of all power is the capacity to imagine an alternative future."Simone de Beauvoir
"The capacity to imagine alternatives is the foundation of human liberation."Simone de Beauvoir
"The true journey of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in perceiving with fresh eyes."Marcel Proust
"Desire is so powerful that it causes us to see that which we wish to see."Marcel Proust
"Every act of perception is also an act of creation."Marcel Proust
"The function of imagination is not to resolve the conflict but to elude it."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The task of genius is to make the impossible possible."Albert Camus
"One does not discover countries; one invents them."Albert Camus
"The mind of man is capable of anything."Jean-Paul Sartre
"Imagination is not an empirical talent, but rather the power of the imagination reveals the fundamental finitude of human reality."Jean-Paul Sartre
"To forbid desire is to forbid the future; to forbid imagination is to forbid hope."Simone de Beauvoir
"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a shadow of what we imagine in our heart."Denis Diderot
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."Denis Diderot
"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Imagination is more important than knowledge of facts."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"One must have chaos within one's mind to be inventive."André Gide
"Imagination is the only weapon against conformity."Albert Camus
"Every person carries within them a whole cosmos waiting to be explored."Albert Camus
"Imagination is the rebellion of consciousness against constraint."Albert Camus
"Imagination is not an empirical faculty; it does not work on the given."Jean-Paul Sartre
"The power of imagination is greater than the power of knowledge."Montesquieu