"I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought." Wilson Mizner
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." James Allen
"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create." William Blake
"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person." Ralph Bunche
"There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea." P. W. Bridgman
"Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness." Morris Leopold Ernst
"Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs." John H. Vincent
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." Pablo Picasso
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." Elbert Hubbard
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." Theodore Roosevelt
"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it." Alfred North Whitehead
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"What is mind ? Never matter. What is matter ? Never mind." Bertrand Russell
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." Voltaire
"What a good thing Adam had when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before." Mark Twain
"The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another." Thomas Carlyle
"It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life." Barthold Georg Niebuhr
"Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements." Alfonso X
"Booze gave me wings, but it took away the sky." Anonymous
"I tried to drown my sorrows in a bottle, but it turned out they could swim." Anonymous
"Creation is a drug I can't do without." Cecil B. DeMille
"Failure to use such an abundant inherent treasure as creativity, whether it be because of unawareness that it exists, indifference, or deliberate stultification is more than a waste, it is self-betrayal." Mastoshi Yoshimura
"Nothing has really happened until it's been described." Virginia Woolf
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind of beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." James Joyce
"The more you know, the more you know you don't know." Aristotle
"The more you own, the more you know you don't own." Aristotle Onasis, attributed without substantiation
"Doubt is not to be feared but welcomed." Richard Feynman
"After prayer and fasting, the practice of literary compositions does the most to bridle the lusts of the flesh." Abbe of Fleury
"Desperation is the mother of creativity." Chrys Wu
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." John Burroughs
"The ability of someone to choose and arrange the details of their creative field guided by a vision is a major hallmark of a genius." John Briggs
"Oh ! how near are genius and madness ! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them." Denis Diderot
"Between the physiology of the man of genius, therefore, and the pathology of the insane there are many points of coincidence." Cesare Lombroso
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." R.L. Stevenson
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made; what's a sundial in the shade?" Benjamin Franklin
"Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius." William Blake
"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work." William Butler Yeats
"Fun may be the most important discipline of all." Sally Ann Farrar
"Never alter anything you write, especially if someone asks you to." Bertrand Russell
"The ancient map-makers wrote across unexplored regions, 'Here are lions.'" W. B. Yeats
"There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence." Robert G. Ingersoll
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James
"If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has found before...." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I long to set foot where no man has trod before." Charles Darwin
"In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it." John Archibald Wheeler
"Who knows the flower best? The one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside ?" Alexandra David-Neel
"An accident is perhaps the only thing that really inspires us. A composer improvises aimlessly the way an animal grubs about. Both of them go grubbing about because they yield to a compulsion to seek things out." Igor Stravinski
"We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us." Edgar Mitchell, Apollo Astronaut
"If a man plant himself indomitable on his instincts, the world will come round to him." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has." Descartes
"I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there." Richard Feynman
"Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought." John Charles Salak
"The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and having done it well, he loves to do it better." Jacob Bronowski
"I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison
"Success is 99% failure." Soichiro Honda
"When you make up your mind, your mind stops making." Stein X. Leikanger
"Creativity: a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." Arthur Koestler
"Bring in ideas and entertain them royally, for one of them may be king." Mark Van Doren