H. L. Mencken Quotes

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

… the third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

I just sit there and try to think of stuff that I could do that's a little different but still not step outside of who I am.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

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.

Humans are very imaginative animals.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.