Quotes

"Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time."
Rabindranath Tagore

"Ideas too are a life and a world."

G. C. Lichtenberg  

"He who is hurt by knowledge is his own murderer."
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."   
Roald Dahl  

Hungarian photographer André Kertész was known for his drive and enthusiasm. At 90, when asked what it was that kept him working, he replied, "I am still hungry."  

"The withering away of illusions is a long and dreary process, like a toothache. But you can pull out a tooth. Illusions, dead, continue to rot within us. And stink. And you can't escape them. I carry all of mine around with me."  
Dmitri Shostakovich

"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important of human resources."  

Alex F. Osborn

"Creativity starts when you cut a zero from your budget. If you cut two zeros, it's much better."
Jaime Lerner 

"Mistakes are the portals of dicovery."
James Joyce

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing  —  that is what counts." 
Richard P. Feynman

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
Florence Nightingale

"A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Sail out to sea and do new things." 
Grace Hopper  

"There is more hope for a citizen who doesn't read, than for a citizen who only reads one book." 
Jorge Wagensberg   

"To make a discovery takes long years, but thereafter it can be explained in the course of an hour." 
Nicholas Steno  

"An expert is man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."
Niels Bohr  

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cock sure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell 

"The greatest tool of our times is not the personal computer but the human imagination."
Robin Sharma

"Feel, don't be a thinking machine."
Enrique MIret Magdalena

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Eric Hoffer

"Innovation is not linked to perfection. Innovate and launch. Your environment will then help you to improve."
Bernardo Hernández

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Marie Curie

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
Confucius

"Stones in the road? I save every single one, one day I´ll build a castle."
Fernando Pessoa

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An absoultely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man".
H.L. Mencken

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Richard Feynman

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James

"What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous."
Peter Drucker

"The impossible is often the untried."
J. Goodwin

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley

"Do not turn down your dreams. Where would the world be without hope?"
Ramón de Campoamor

"There's a way to amuse yourself while doing things and that is how I look at efficiency."
Donald Ervin Knuth

"Wherever there is a successful enterprise, someonce once took a brave decision."
Peter Drucker

"The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle."
Author Unknown

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."
Henry Ford

“Know how to do good a little at a time, and often."
Balthasar Gracian

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
Ellen Parr

“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise."
Emily Dickinson

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B."
James A. Yorke

“I have not failed. I have found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
Henry Ford

“Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas."
H. G Wells

“One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
John Stuart Mill

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky

"I believe in being an innovator."
Walt Disney

"To live is to think."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
Arthur C. Clarke

"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone."
Alexander Graham Bell

"The real world is much smaller than the imaginary."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"One of the most serious problems of our time is that many people believe that, since they have studied, they don't have to think anymore."
Aldo Cammarata

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Milton Berle

"The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
David Ogilvy

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all."
Elbert Hubbard

"Never has effort hindered fortune."
Fernando de Rojas

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
Truman Capote

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
William Faulkner

"What good is there in inventiveness if it doesn't amuse us? There is nothing more tiresome than sad inventiveness."
Ivan Turgenev

"If everyone is thinking alike, nobody is doing much thinking."
Walter Lippmann

"I have failed time and time again in my life, and that is why I have ended up reaching success."
Michael Jordan

"The creation of a thousand forests is contained in one acorn."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
Socrates

"Someone with imagination can easily bring an entire world out of nothing."
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

"An intelligent person searches for the experience he or she wishes to live."
 Aldous Huxley

"Most men have an intellectual capacity far superior than what they use."
José Ortega y Gasset

"Where science ends, imagination begins."
Jules de Gaultier

"Intelligence and common sense make their way with little artifice."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance."
Benjamin Disraeli

"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else."
Laurence J. Peter

"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."
Jorge Luis Borges

"To improve our knowledge, we must learn less and reflect more."
René Descartes

"Talent is quite common. It is not intelligence that is scarce, but constance."
Doris Lessing

"Intelligence consists not only in knowledge, but in how that knowledge is put to practice."
Aristotle

"Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. Intelligence has its limits, stupidity does not."
Claude Chabrol

"The first duty of intelligence is to doubt itself."
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"In practice, only that which can be solved through intelligence is a problem."
Hermann Keyserling

"Intelligence is that which we use when we don't know what else to do."
Jean Piaget

"We were given intelligence so that we could doubt."
Emile Verhaeren

"Many times in life, work can accomplish more than genius."
Ward

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw

"In order to be successful in this world, one must appear to be mad, while in fact being wise."
Montesquieu

"Not taking risks is the most risky way of proceeding, so to avoid risks, I'll risk it."
Juanma Lillo

"Accept risks, life is nothing but an opportunity. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."
Dale Carnegie

"I don't regret running all the risks I've run for what mattered to me."
Arthur Miller

"Sólo es posible avanzar cuando se mira lejos. Solo cabe progresar cuando se piensa en grande."
José Ortega y Gasset

"To dare: that is the price of progress."
Victor Hugo

"Problems are an opportunity to prove what you know."
Duke Ellington

"We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein

"Search inside yourself for the solution to all problems, even those you think most external and material."
Amado Nervo

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it!"
Joseph Conrad

"Things done in a hurry are never done right; it is best to always act calmly."
San Francisco de Sales

"Plan: to bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result."
Ambrose Bierce

"The way to hit the nail once is to hit the horseshoe a hundred times."
Miguel de Unamuno

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
Samuel Johnson

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
Napoleón I

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Oliver Goldsmith

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
Theodore Roosevelt

"If you fall down seven times, get up eight times."
Chinese proverb

"Dare to think!"
Immanuel Kant

"Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous."
Confucio

"Never walk the beaten track, because it will only take you where others have already been."
Alexander Graham Bell

"There are always opportunities for those who know where to look."
Tomás Pascual Sanz

"Small opportunities are at the origin of great enterprises."
Demóstenes

"Works are never finished, they are abandoned."
Paul Ambroise Valéry

"A work is half finished when one begins it well."
Séneca

"Only ideas can save entire races."
Balzac

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
Rivarol

"An uncivilized man has nothing but emotions; a civilized man has emotions and ideas."
Balzac

"An idea is a meteorite."
Víctor Hugo

"A fixed idea seems a great idea, not because it is great but because it fills an entire brain."
Jacinto Benavente

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw

"The interest that blinds some, enlightens others."
François de La Rochefoucauld

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uniterested person."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds are interested in the ordinary."
Victor Hugo

"It is while attempting the impossible that one achieves what is possible."
Henri Barbusse

"All things are impossible while they seem to be so."
Concepción Arenal

"Since they did not know it was impossible, they did it."
Anonymous

"For the possible to emerge, one must repeatedly attempt the impossible."
Hermann Hesse

"Being inventive is not enough; what is most important is to apply your inventiveness well."
René Descartes

"Imagination is the voice of daring."
Henry Miller

"I disagree with your ideas, but I defend your sacred right to express them."
Voltaire

"Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes them."
Joseph Joubert

"Knowing is not enough, one must also apply one's knowledge. Wanting is not enough, one must also act."
Goethe

"Humanity has learnt less from right ideas than from bad experience."
Hjalmar Schacht

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can imagine it, you can create it."
Albert Einstein

"If you fall seven times, get up eight times."
Chinese proverb

"I have no special talents, but I am profoundly curious."
Albert Einstein

"Many scientists were not happy with the idea that the universe had a beginning, a moment of creation."
Stephen Hawking

"Nobody knows what he is capable of until he tries."
Publio Siro

"The slowest of men, who does not not however lose sight of his objective, will always be quicker than he who does not follow a fixed goal."
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"The higher a man sets his goal, the more he will grow."
Friedrich con Schiller

"Man must not blindly follow a fixed course."
Ángel Ganivet

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own."
Henry Ford

"Most of our failures arise from wanting to hasten the hour of success."
Amado Nervo

"The secret of success lies in sincerity. Once you can fake that, you have it made."
Groucho Marx

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Success is learning to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Our reward lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Do what you must to achieve your most fervent desire, and you will end up succeeding."
Ludwig van Beethoven

"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who does nothing."
Goethe

"The man who makes a mistake and does not correct it, makes an even greater mistake." Confucius

"Hope awakens the determination to start something, while only patience can finish it."
Anonymous

"In times of crisis, only imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"There is something more important than logic: the imagination."
Alfred Hitchcock

"There is not a more accurate test of the progress of civilization than the progress in the power of co-operation."
John Stuart Mill

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
Henry Havelock Ellis

"True progress consists of renovating oneself."
Alexandre Vinet

"We owe progress to those who are unsatisfied."
Aldous Huxley 

"Progress and development are impossible if one continues doing things the way one always has."
Wayne W. Dyer

"Progress does not consist of annihalating yesterday today, but, on the contrary, of conserving that essence of yesterday that had the virtue of creating that better today."
José Ortega y Gasset

"Progress consists of change."
Miguel Unamuno

"Many small people in many small places will do small things that will change the world."
Leo Buscaglia

"If the change inside your organization is slower than the change outside your company, the end is in sight."
Jack Welch

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
Steve Jobs

"Innovation requires a systematic approach, because it is unpredictable."
Peter Drucker

"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention."
Nikola Tesla

"Tradition is a challenge to innovation."
Alvaro Siza

"Innovations should be introduced little by little, almost imperceptibly."
Don Bosco

"To be ahead of the rest, you need to see more than they do."
José Marti

"Just like the river creates its own banks, the legitimate idea creates its own paths and channels."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We should never become too obsessed with the idea we are after."
Claude Bernard

"All truth passes through 3 phases:
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Henry George

"Trenches made of ideas are worth more than trenches made of stone."
José Martí

"All ideas, even sacred ones, must adapt to altered realities."
Salman Rushdie

"Ideas should be reciprocally compensated, contrasted, balanced out and, even destroyed."
Miguel de Unamuno

"We hear without seeking to hear, we receive without asking what we look for. Like lightning, the idea appears absolute, necessary, without doubt or hesitation."
Nietzsche

"Whoever fears the idea, ends up also losing the concept."
Goethe

"Only a savage beast will not understand that ideas cannot be fought with cannon-shots."
Catalina of Aragon

"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent."
Rivarol

"Ideas are forces."
Nietzsche

"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person."
Ralph Johnson

"Ideas are not to be imposed, they are to be proposed."
Jean Paul II

"What is important is not to have many ideas, but the right idea for each occasion."
Juan Zorrilla

"Ideas are corroborated by suggestions."
Salomon

"There is nothing more powerful in the world than an idea arriving at the right time."
Víctor Hugo

"Ideas stimulate the mind."
Hoffer

"If the idea does not seek to be the word, the chances are that it is an evil idea. If the word is not made flesh it is a bad word." 
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"It is not locomotives, but ideas, that drive and carry the world."
Víctor Hugo

"Ideas are not mute paintings on a chalkboard; an idea, as such, includes an assertion or a negation of something."
Baruch de Spinoza

"If a man risks nothing for his ideas, it is either that they are worth nothing, or that the man is worth nothing."
Platón

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
Mark Twain

"What drives and carries the world forward are not machines but ideas."
Víctor Hugo

"Ideas light each other like sparks of electricity."
Johann Jakob Engel

"Ideas are not responsible for what men do with them."
Werner Heisenberg

"Ideas don't last long. Something has to be done with them."
Santiago Ramón y Cajal

"Great ideas are those that surprise us most because we didn't think of them earlier."
Noel Clarasó

"Ideas move the world only if they have previously been transformed into emotion."
Elizabeth Taylor

"Ideas lie above nationalities, motherlands, and governments."
Eduardo Haro Tecglen

"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself."
Bernard Baruck

"As long as there is someone who believes in an idea, that idea will remain alive."
José Ortega y Gasset

"We would never have come to many of our own ideas, had we not held long conversations with others."
Noel Clarasó

"In searching for words we come to ideas." 
Joseph Joubert

"To innovate is to find a new or better use of the resources already at our disposal."
Peter Drucker