Blaise Pascal Quotes

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

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

Age, style, where you come from, where you were born, it's different every time, which, to me, is refreshing because it says that there isn't any one thing, one formula or kind of character that makes a great comedian. Everybody has had a different approach.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

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

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.

I used to watch everybody's stuff, but I found I would get slightly influenced by the other comics. I try to avoid it now.