Douglas Adams Quotes

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

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

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

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

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Good wits will jump.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.