Mark Haddon Quotes

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

I think like a detective.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

There's nothing like having some healthy competition. We really strive to think outside the box by taking the standard approach the then twisting it a little, all the while trying something new.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Lateral thinking... is the process of using information to bring about creativity and insight restructuring. Lateral thinking can be learned, practised and used. It is possible to acquire skill in it just as it is possible to acquire skill in mathematics.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.