The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.
Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.
Creativity is as important as literacy
It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.
You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- But we can't help falling in love. - We can't help defecating either. But we can choose where and when we are going to do it.