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 sand upon the beach is infinite compared to what we know of infinity itself."
Archimedes
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"The bathtub contains infinities within its humble waters."
Archimedes
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"The infinite can be glimpsed in the finite, if one knows where to look."
Archimedes
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"The mind's capacity for wonder is boundless if we allow it to be."
Leonhard Euler
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"What we can imagine, the mind can grasp; what we can grasp, we can understand."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"What we imagine with conviction, we may create with effort."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Imagination is the forge where all creation begins."
Gottfried Leibniz
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"Imagination without knowledge is wandering in darkness; knowledge without imagination is sterile."
Christiaan Huygens
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"I have learned that imagination is as important as knowledge, for knowledge is finite while imagination embraces the infinite."
Johannes Kepler
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"The imagination is the beginning of creation."
René Descartes
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"The richness of the mathematical world is inexhaustible and more wondrous than any fiction."
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"We are more influenced by what we imagine than by reality."
Albert Bandura
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"Imagination is the gateway to possibility and innovation."
Albert Bandura
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"The telescope has shown us that our place in the universe is far grander than we imagined."
Christiaan Huygens
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"The imagination is constrained only by the boundaries we place upon it."
Christiaan Huygens
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
Carl Jung
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"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
Carl Jung
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"Imagination guided by reason produces innovation."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Imagination is the laboratory of the possible."
Ivan Pavlov
"Imagination is what allows us to create new behaviors and new worlds."
B.F. Skinner
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"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
René Descartes
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"The mind has the power to imagine what is not."
René Descartes
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"The mind of man is the only exception to the observable world."
René Descartes
"Creativity flourishes not in the absence of rules, but in the proper arrangement of rewards for novel thinking."
B.F. Skinner
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"The imagination is not a luxury; it is the faculty that allows us to transcend present circumstances and envision alternative futures."
Albert Bandura
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"The mind's capacity to represent absent objects and future events is what allows planning, hope, and dread."
Albert Bandura
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"In our unconscious there is a never-ceasing phantasy, and there alone can we find the wishes and wishes-fulfillments which alone make life worth living."
Sigmund Freud
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
Carl Jung
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"The imagination must be disciplined by observation, or it becomes merely fantasy."
Ivan Pavlov