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 more important than knowledge because knowledge is limited to what we already know."
B.F. Skinner
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"The child's imagination is the seed of adult creativity."
Sigmund Freud
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"Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of anticipatory scenarios people construct and rehearse."
Albert Bandura
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"Forethought enables people to transcend the dictates of their immediate environment."
Albert Bandura
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"The mind is not a spectator; it is an active participant in creating the reality it experiences."
Albert Bandura
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"People create their own realities through their interpretations of events."
Albert Bandura
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"What we call imagination is merely the rearrangement of observed reality."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Imagination without knowledge is wishful thinking; knowledge without imagination is sterile."
Ivan Pavlov
"Imagination is the simulation of behavior in the absence of actual environmental stimuli."
B.F. Skinner
"The imagination that envisions prevention is more valuable than the cure after the fact."
Edward Jenner
"I am of certain convinced that the greatest delights of sense are purely instrumental to the delights of imagination."
Florence Nightingale
"Imagination is the foundation of all innovation."
B.F. Skinner
"Imagination is more valuable than knowledge in an uncertain world."
B.F. Skinner
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"The child in us is eternal; to deny it is to lose touch with the source of joy and wonder."
Carl Jung
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"The capacity to imagine is the beginning of creation, and creation is the evidence of life."
Carl Jung
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"Imagination is the capacity to generate new domains of descriptions."
Humberto Maturana
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"Imagination is the source of all human creation."
Humberto Maturana
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"We are at the mercy of our own images."
Sigmund Freud
"The universe is vast, but human curiosity is even vaster."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"The mind has no limits except those you impose on yourself."
Chien-Shiung Wu
"The imagination of a scientist sees possibilities where others see only obstacles."
Edward Jenner
"Imagination liberated from the constraints of tradition leads to revolutionary discoveries."
Edward Jenner
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"Great discoveries require great curiosity."
James Watson
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"The laboratory is a place of wonder."
James Watson
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
Lise Meitner
"Imagination is not a luxury; it is essential to understanding our world."
James Lovelock
"Imagination allows us to see the world as it could be, not just as it is."
James Lovelock
"A woman is not idle because she is absorbed in her thoughts. There is as much bustle in the mind as in the world."
Florence Nightingale
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"Imagination is not escape but the capacity to envision new possibilities."
Humberto Maturana
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"The greatest discoveries come not from rigid thinking, but from the willingness to question everything."
Lise Meitner