George Santayana Quotes

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

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.

The people who do make big discoveries are the ones who somehow manage to free themselves from conventional ways of thinking and to see the subject from a new perspective.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.

Let's just say my mind is different.

I've always been blown away by how unique Brian Limond's mind is.

I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

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 an African who dreams up snow.