Imagination Quotes

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

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"It is not enough to have eyes to see; we must have vision."
Victor Hugo
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, but knowledge gives imagination direction."
Gustave Flaubert
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"The imagination is the greatest tool humanity possesses."
Émile Zola
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"The greatest invention is the power of the human imagination."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Imagination is the birth place of innovation."
Alexandre Dumas
"The world to me was a secret which I desired to divine."
Mary Shelley
"My imagination was too much encouraged."
Mary Shelley
"The mind can conceive what the hand cannot create."
Mary Shelley
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Imagination transcends the limits of reality."
Charlotte Brontë
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"A man who has not imagined a brave act before he has been capable of performing it, and most lives are governed by a few acts performed after a century of idle imagination."
Charles Dickens
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"I am convinced that the future belongs to those who dare to imagine it boldly."
Émile Zola
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"The imagination is the only horizon which never closes."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge in shaping the future."
Honoré de Balzac
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"In this world, there is always some madness, and in madness there is always some genius."
Victor Hugo
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"There is always something of the marvellous in what is strange."
Victor Hugo
"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size."
Gustave Flaubert
"The imagination is the greatest tool of human progress."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Imagination is the key that unlocks all the doors of possibility."
Alexandre Dumas
"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
Mary Shelley
"The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine."
Mary Shelley
"I have been haunted by images which no philosophy could extinguish."
Mary Shelley
"Imagination is more important than mere knowledge of facts."
Mary Shelley
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"The imagination is the greatest tool humanity possesses."
Émile Zola
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"Does the imagination dwell the most upon a woman's features and form"
John Keats
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"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream"
John Keats
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"The true use of the imagination is to awaken the mind"
John Keats
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"Tell me where is fancy bred"
John Keats
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Charles Dickens
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"The imagination of mankind has created all of human civilization."
Honoré de Balzac