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