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
"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
"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
"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