What If Quotes
On imagination, doubt and playful hypotheticals.
This page gathers quotes built around the phrase 'what if,' used to imagine alternate scenarios, such as artists like Picasso or Andy Warhol reaching the Moon, and to question deeper ideas, like whether everything might be an illusion or a shared dream. One quote even turns philosophical doubt into a joke about overpaying for a carpet. Related musings appear in our Curiosity quotes collection.
I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.
What if Picasso had gone to the Moon? Or Andy Warhol or Michael Jackson or John Lennon? What about Coco Chanel? These are all artists that I adore.
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Curiosity Quotes
The one thing humans can't control is time, but what if one has the power to do so is the core theme of '24.'
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
There is a clear norm against the spread of nuclear weapons, but there is no consensus or treaty on what, if anything, is to be done once a country develops or acquires nuclear weapons.
Foreign aid should not be automatic. Countries should have to make their case every year, and American officials should openly decide what, if anything, to fund.
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
Doubt Quotes
What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
Even if trolley problems were a realistic concern for AVs, it is not clear what, if anything, regulators or companies developing AVs should do about them. The trolley problem is an intensely debated thought experiment precisely because there isn't a...
Emotion Quotes
What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?
What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
Imagination Quotes
I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'
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A final quote applies 'what if' to interpretation itself, asking what remains open to interpretation if not Shakespeare. For more on imagination, browse our Imagination quotes page.
