Ken Robinson Quotes

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

Creativity allows people to be effective.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity helps children imagine a better world and then create it.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I wanna make weird stuff.

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.