Imagination Quotes

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

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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
William Butler Yeats
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"What can the imagination not accomplish when given freedom to roam?"
William Butler Yeats
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"Imagination is the key to understanding the world."
Thomas Hardy
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"Imagination is the only weapon against reality."
Thomas Hardy
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"Your imagination is limitless."
Thomas Hardy
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Oscar Wilde
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge of the world."
James Joyce
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"The mind that opens to wonder remains forever young."
James Joyce
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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Imagination is our one avenue to the transcendent."
George Eliot
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"The role of the imagination is not merely to invent facts but to perceive truth."
Thomas Hardy
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"The imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
Anne Brontë
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"Imagination creates possibility."
Anne Brontë
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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
William Butler Yeats
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"Those masterful images because complete grew in pure mind, but out of what began?"
William Butler Yeats
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"To me the difference between a genius and an ordinary man is not so much in intellectual power as in imagination."
William Butler Yeats
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"Imagination is a place all by itself."
Emily Brontë
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"What is Heathcliff but a creature of Cathy's imagination?"
Emily Brontë
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"The mind is its own place."
Emily Brontë
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"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
George Bernard Shaw
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"When the mind is quickened to imagination, all things are tail and ear for the poet."
James Joyce
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"The figure of Stephen Dedalus loomed on his horizon."
James Joyce
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"Imagination is the only escape from a prison of circumstance."
Anne Brontë
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"Imagination is the only freedom that tyranny cannot completely suppress."
Thomas Hardy
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"Imagination is the wing upon which dreams take flight."
Emily Brontë
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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
William Butler Yeats
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"The real Alice fell down a well, not a rabbit hole."
Charlotte Brontë