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