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 only thing that stands between man and extinction is imagination."Russell, Bertrand
"The mind's greatest power lies in its ability to imagine what does not yet exist."Wisdom, John
"Imagination is the factory where reality is built before it becomes real."Wisdom, John
"Imagination is the beginning of all creation."Moore, George Edward
"Imagination is the key to possibility."Moore, George Edward
"The imagination is our capacity to conceive what has not yet been."Austin, John Langshaw
"Imagination allows us to transcend present circumstances through envisioned possibilities."Austin, John Langshaw
"The imaginary is the only absolute truth."Weil, Simone
"The imagination is the source of all that is real."Weil, Simone
"To lose the capacity for wonder is to lose humanity itself."Arendt, Hannah
"Imagination is the bridge between the possible and the actual."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Imagination is the first step toward creation."Rosenzweig, Franz
"The capacity for imagination allows us to transcend the given and envision new possibilities for living."Strawson, Peter Frederick
"Imagination is not escape from reality, but the capacity to see possibilities within it."Strawson, Peter Frederick
"The imagination is the eye of the soul."Moore, George Edward
"The imagination can achieve what reality cannot yet reach."Moore, George Edward
"A picture holds us captive; we cannot get outside it."Austin, John Langshaw
"One picture holds us captive, and we cannot get outside it."Austin, John Langshaw
"Imagination is not the same as daydreaming."Weil, Simone
"The impossible is simply what we have not yet learned."Weil, Simone
"Imagination is the only boundary that truly matters."Moore, George Edward
"Imagination is the faculty that apprehends what is not yet."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Imagination allows us to see what could be rather than what is."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Do not fear to be thought radical; the whole tendency of modern thought tends to show that the future belongs to those who are sufficiently adventurous."Russell, Bertrand
"Imagination is more important than facts, for facts are merely the past while imagination shapes the future."Arendt, Hannah
"The future belongs not to the powerful but to the imaginative."Arendt, Hannah
"The image contains what the word cannot grasp."Blanchot, Maurice
"To imagine is to betray the real."Blanchot, Maurice
"Imagination betrays reality precisely in the moment of fidelity."Blanchot, Maurice
"Imagination is not a talent, it is a capacity to see the whole person."Buber, Martin
