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 of man is boundless when unshackled by convention."
Henry Fielding
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"Imagination is the first step toward the creation of reality."
Henry Fielding
"A man may be a rover in his heart though his feet never leave his homeland."
Daniel Defoe
"Imagination is the gateway to infinite possibilities."
Eliza Haywood
"Let imagination be your compass."
Eliza Haywood
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"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers."
Jonathan Swift
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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
Jonathan Swift
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, which is limited."
Jonathan Swift
"The imagination is as important as knowledge."
Aphra Behn
"Imagination is the birthplace of invention."
Aphra Behn
"Imagination transforms the world."
Aphra Behn
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"A woman's imagination is her greatest strength."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"We are limited only by our imagination."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The tales we tell ourselves become the reality we inhabit."
Eliza Haywood
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"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
Samuel Johnson
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"The greatest pleasures of reading are in the power of imagination."
Samuel Johnson
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"A person without imagination is one without hope."
Samuel Johnson
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"The greatest instrument of moral good is the imagination."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"A man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensively."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The mind creates a world of its own."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The imagination is humanity's greatest unconquered territory."
Aphra Behn
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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour."
William Blake
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"All that we See is Vision only, a Creation of the Imagination."
William Blake
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"The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself."
William Blake
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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower is Imagination."
William Blake
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"What is now prov'd was once only imagin'd."
William Blake
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"The Imagination is Infinity and eternity the ear cannot exist without the Eye."
William Blake
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"How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?"
William Blake
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"What lies beyond the veil of our understanding?"
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Imagination is the only freedom tyrants cannot chain."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley