Martin Heidegger Quotes

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavors to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men's ideas.

I think if you're going to be a little bit innovative or risk-taking, sometimes you're going to be wrong, and it's going to look bad. I understand that.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There's real peril in trying to repeat yourself, and apply rules that applied to something else to a new project.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Dissidents should be paid 13 months' salary for a year, otherwise our mindless unanimity will bring us to an even more hopeless state of stagnation. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Always there should be a little mistake here and there - I am for it. The people who don't do mistakes are cold like ice. It takes risk to make a mistake. If you don't take risk, you are boring.

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.

The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world.