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 greatest power of the mind is to order and link together the images of things."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"The future is nothing but uncertainty and possibility."
Descartes, René
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"Imagination is the faculty by which we transcend the present moment."
Descartes, René
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"Imagination is the canvas upon which possibility paints."
Al-Ghazali
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity; there is no cure for curiosity."
Avicenna
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"The mind is infinite in its capacity to wonder and understand."
Avicenna
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"The mind without curiosity is like a lamp without oil."
Avicenna
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"The imagination is the bridge between what is and what could be."
Avicenna
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"The imagination, properly directed, is the nursery of all great things."
Locke, John
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"The imagination of a child is the hope of the world."
Locke, John
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"The imagination is not to be controlled in its flights and operations."
Hume, David
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"The mind abhors a vacuum and will fill it with imagination if facts are not available."
Hume, David
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"The mind that is narrow cannot perceive great truths."
Averroes
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"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
Averroes
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"The imagination can create worlds more real than reality itself."
Maimonides
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"The mind is infinite; it can contain all knowledge."
Maimonides
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"The individual mind is the expression of the infinite intellect."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Descartes, René
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"The imagination is the gateway between the possible and the impossible."
Avicenna
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"Imagination is the key that unlocks infinite possibilities."
Al-Ghazali
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"Imagination without discipline is chaos; discipline without imagination is death."
Al-Ghazali
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Imagination is the door to infinite possibility."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The imagination is a crucial faculty for understanding abstract truths."
Averroes
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"The imaginative faculty must be disciplined by reason to produce truth."
Averroes
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"The imagination, when properly cultivated, becomes humanity's greatest tool."
Averroes
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"The imagination is the workshop where dreams are forged into reality."
Avicenna
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"You will suffer more in imagination than in reality."
Seneca
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The imagination of a disciplined mind is more powerful than the strongest arm."
Averroes