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