Imagination Quotes

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

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"Man has to awaken to wonder."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Comte, Auguste
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Imagination precedes all discovery."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Imagination is not mere fantasy but a faculty for grasping essential possibilities."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Our capacity for imagination shows that consciousness transcends the merely given."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Essence is grasped through a free variation of imaginative examples."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Imagination is the force behind all human creation."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The universe is alive with possibility."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Imagination is the bridge between reason and emotion."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Imagination is the organ of all profound knowledge."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Imagination without knowledge is merely fancy."
Comte, Auguste
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"The imagination unguided by knowledge creates only confusion."
Comte, Auguste
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"The best use of imagination is creativity."
James, William
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
James, William
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"Perhaps the greatest human achievement is the ability to imagine how things could be better and then work to make them that way."
Dewey, John
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge in the progressive development of human faculty."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Imagination is the faculty that separates humanity from nature."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The imagination is the mother of all creativity."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Marx, Karl
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"Imagination constrained by reason produces the highest human achievements."
Comte, Auguste
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"Imagination without systematic training produces fantasy, not insight."
Comte, Auguste
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"The human body may be in repose while the mind is active with thought."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Imagination is the faculty that liberates us from the chains of the actual."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The imagination is the greatest power given to humankind."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"We are made up largely of curiosity; our thoughts travel bound on errands about the world before we have begun to live."
James, William
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"Curiosity is a natural human attribute deserving of respect"
Marx, Karl
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"Imagination disciplined by reason produces wonders beyond mere fancy."
Comte, Auguste
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"The imagination that merely dreams is useless; it must be harnessed to practical improvement."
Comte, Auguste
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"The mind that has become accustomed to uniformity cannot readily conceive diversity."
Mill, John Stuart