Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

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

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

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

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

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

No man was ever great by imitation.

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

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Love can reach the same level of talent, and even genius, as the discovery of differential calculus.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.