"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing." Publilius Syrus
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few." Shunryu Suzuki
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." Igor Stravinsky
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." Tom Stoppard
"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." Saul Steinberg
"Doodling is the brooding of the mind." Saul Steinberg
"Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind." Zen saying
"Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced." Ned Rorem
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." Chinese Proverb
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso
"I do not seek. I find. (Je ne cherche pas; je trouve)" Pablo Picasso
"The only joy in the world is to begin." Cesare Pavese
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Isaac Newton
"To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid." Yaqui Mystic
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." Paul McCartney
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." W. Somerset Maugham
"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection." Thomas Macaulay
"In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak." James Russell Lowell
"The map is not the territory." Alfred Korzbyski
"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism." Dean William R. Inge
"One cannot step twice into the same river." Heraclitus
"You lose it if you talk about it." Ernest Hemingway
"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." Ursula K. Le Guin
"Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right." Henry Ford
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." Oscar Wilde
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists." Charles Dickens
"No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going." Oliver Cromwell
"Music is the art of thinking with sounds." Jules Combarie
"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak." G. K. Chesterton
"No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive." John Cassavetes
"Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse." James Carswell
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." Frank Capra
"We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind." Jacob Bronowski
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." William Blake
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." Basho
"I'm not young enough to know everything." J. M. Barrie
"To ask the hard question is simple." W. H. Auden
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." James Joyce
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." Robert Heinlein
"What wit resides in the cosmos!" Norman Mailer
"There is nothing great in the world that does not owe it's origin to the creative ability of an individual man." Adolf Hitler
"Dissent has always been the principal catalyst in the alchemy of truth." Ramsey Clark
"It's always better to take advantage of you chances as they come along." Lee Harvey Oswald
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless." Steven Weinberg
"It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." John Saxe
"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired." Mark Twain
"Ideas are the root of creation." Ernest Dimnet
"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker." Voltaire
"They know everything. Unfortunately, they don't know anything else." Henry Kissinger
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience." Elbert Hubbard
"Curiosity never killed anything." Dave Dufour
"Winning a Nobel Prize is no big deal, but winning it with an IQ of 124 is really something." Richard Feynman
"Competitions are for horses, not artists." Bela Bartok
"We know more than we think we know." Richard E. Cytowic
"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." Flannery O'Connor
"Once we get better at living together, I don't think that we'll feel the need for ideas like immortality." Lewis Thomas
"You write down the problem. You think very hard. Then you write down the answer." Anonymous, describing the way Richard Feynman solves a problem
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." Bertrand Russell
"Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n." John Milton
"If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you can't. Either way you are right." Henry Ford
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers.
"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Mud often gives the illusion of depth." Stanilaw Lem
"Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough, it's obvious that every idea that you have is no good." Richard Feynman
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
"That which opposes produces a benefit." Heraclitus
"No brain is stronger than its weakest think." Thomas L. Masson
"To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning." Henry David Thoreau
"Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts." William Hazlitt
"Learning without thought is labor lost." Confucius