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 future is shaped by those who dare to imagine it differently."
Popper, Karl
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge about the future."
Popper, Karl
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"Imagination reveals essential possibilities."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Imaginative variation discloses essential structures."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Imagination is freedom from actuality."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
Dewey, John
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"A person without imagination is like an orchid without color."
Dewey, John
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"Imagination is essential to all understanding."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The power of imagination creates worlds."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Imagination and reason must be united."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Imagination is valuable, but it must be disciplined by logic and constrained by evidence."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"It's easy to imagine someone always smiling. To imagine someone who always weeps is harder."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"To imagine a language different from ours is to imagine a different form of life."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Imagination is as much a fact as observation."
Dewey, John
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"In imagination we put the picture of something alongside the thing itself."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Imagination is not escape from reality but the means by which we grasp reality's deeper dimensions."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Imagination liberated from reality becomes fantasy; anchored in reality it becomes creation."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The secret to discovery is not in seeking new lands but new eyes."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Imagination is not a weakness of consciousness; it is essential to how we understand even perceptual experience."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The mind of man is capable of anything."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The only function of the imagination is to give the mind new powers."
James, William
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"The child has their own world of imagination and we adults are always trying to invade it."
Dewey, John
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge; knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to discover."
Dewey, John
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"There is no tragedy in human existence more profound than the failure of imagination."
Dewey, John
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"A person without imagination is like a bird without wings."
Dewey, John
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"Man is not bound to render an account of his dreams."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The mind does not work in a straight line."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The most powerful force is imagination."
Peirce, Charles Sanders