Imagination Quotes

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

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"Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible."
Turing, Alan
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"The remarkable thing about the mind is that it can represent anything in the world, including itself."
Turing, Alan
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"A computing machine is not limited by imagination, only by resources."
Turing, Alan
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"The greatest human achievement is the ability to imagine things that don't exist."
Dennett, Daniel
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Dennett, Daniel
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"Imagination is the faculty that bridges what is with what could be."
Jackson, Frank
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"Imagination is the only truly renewable resource."
Jackson, Frank
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"Understanding virtue requires moral imagination."
Foot, Philippa
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"Imagination is the ability to simulate scenarios in your mind before acting them out."
Dennett, Daniel
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"We are pattern-making creatures living in a universe of patterns."
Dennett, Daniel
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"Imagination is constrained by what we know; creativity breaks these constraints."
Dennett, Daniel
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"Imagination is the laboratory where all human progress begins."
Jackson, Frank
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited."
Jackson, Frank
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"We cannot think about what we have never encountered in our causal history."
Davidson, Donald
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Wisdom, John
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"Imagination is constrained by our actual experience."
Dennett, Daniel
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"Imagination is the faculty that allows us to transcend our current reality."
Davidson, Donald
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"Imagination is the rehearsal stage for reality's performance."
Wisdom, John
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"Imagination is the preview of life's coming attractions."
Wisdom, John
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"The narrative we tell about ourselves shapes the self we become."
Dennett, Daniel
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"What cannot be imagined cannot be done."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Imagination is the laboratory where all human progress begins its work."
Wisdom, John
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"Imagination is the faculty that makes us more than mere biological machines."
Wisdom, John
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Moore, George Edward
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"Your imagination is the beginning of creation."
Moore, George Edward
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"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"We make ourselves pictures of facts."
Austin, John Langshaw
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"Our concepts shape not just how we speak, but how we see the world."
Strawson, Peter Frederick
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"Imagination is the capacity to create meaning from chaos."
Arendt, Hannah
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"As a rule it is the unseen and unheard that appeals most to the imagination."
Russell, Bertrand