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 great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Imagination is the gateway to infinite possibility."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
Jonathan Swift
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
Jonathan Swift
"Imagination is the birthplace of all true progress."
Eliza Haywood
"The stories we tell ourselves shape the lives we are able to live."
Eliza Haywood
"The gift of imagination allows us to live a thousand lives beyond our own."
Eliza Haywood
"Imagination is the only limit to what we might become."
Aphra Behn
"The imaginative mind is never imprisoned."
Aphra Behn
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"The mind is never satisfied with what it knows because it can always imagine something greater."
Samuel Johnson
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"The mind is capable of anything."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"The imagination can conjure the most marvellous things."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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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 made by imagination."
William Blake
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"I see every thing I paint In This World, but everybody does not see alike."
William Blake
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"One thought fills immensity."
William Blake
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"The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself."
William Blake
"Imagination is the gateway to infinite worlds."
Christina Rossetti
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"Thought can with difficulty visit the provinces of sense and imagination, but poetry is the medium of the most direct communication."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"In the realm of imagination, all things are possible."
Aphra Behn
"Imagination is the first step toward creation."
Aphra Behn
"The world rewards those bold enough to imagine it differently."
Eliza Haywood
"The imagination is humanity's greatest gift and most dangerous possession."
Eliza Haywood
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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
Jonathan Swift
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"My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of expression were inadequate."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"The power of imagination created the world."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Imagination is the gateway to infinite possibilities."
Eliza Haywood
"The imagination is the only true freedom we possess."
Christina Rossetti
"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
Christina Rossetti
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
Samuel Johnson