Charlie Rose Quotes

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but 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.

In my own life, I found that whenever I wasn't sure what to do next, I would go and learn a lot, read a lot, talk to experts. I don't know how the human brain works, but it's almost magical: when you read enough or talk to enough experts, when you have enough inputs, new ideas start appearing. This seems to happen for a lot of people that I know.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

Truth is the nursing mother of genius.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Ideas come from curiosity.

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

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

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

You have to draw on a fair amount of experience in order to be able to put ideas together.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Without theory we can only copy.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.