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 raw material of all human achievement."
Smith, Barry
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"The world's furniture might include things we have never conceived of."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Kaplan, David
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Kaplan, David
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"Imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions."
Perry, John
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"Imagination is where reality is born."
Perry, John
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"Imagination is suppressed in children by those who want compliant citizens."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Possible worlds are not mere fantasies; they are the logical space within which all meaning dwells."
Montague, Richard
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"Every symbol is a window into the infinite."
Montague, Richard
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"The world contains infinitely more possible states than actual states, yet both are equally real."
Montague, Richard
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"Possible worlds are not fantasies but the very architecture of meaning itself."
Montague, Richard
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"The imagination is humanity's greatest untapped resource for solving problems."
Smith, Barry
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"Barry Smith noted that imagination is the bridge between where we are and where we want to be."
Smith, Barry
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"What we can imagine is a guide to what is metaphysically possible."
Kaplan, David
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"The true sign of intelligence is imagination."
Perry, John
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"Children possess an innate curiosity that education often suppresses rather than nurtures."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Cultural narratives determine what we consider possible."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The scope of what we think possible is artificially limited."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Burge, Tyler
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"Imagination is the gateway to infinite worlds."
Burge, Tyler
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"Imagination is language applied to the possible rather than the actual."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Representation allows us to transcend immediate experience."
Millikan, Ruth Garrett
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"Imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
Kaplan, David
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"Imagination is the technology that preceded all other technologies."
Kaplan, David
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"Imagination is the faculty that separates dreamers from mere thinkers."
Perry, John
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"Imagination is the only frontier that has no limits."
Perry, John
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"Imagination precedes all creation."
Fine, Kit
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"Imagination creates the future."
Fine, Kit
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"Every question we ask opens a new door of possibility."
Burge, Tyler
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"The mind's potential is limited only by its willingness to explore."
Burge, Tyler