Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

I would say that when you go to the very, very top, it's an ability to come up with new ideas, with something new, to make the difference. Every world champion, every player who was traversing this universe, managed to bring something new to the game. This ability to always find some unconventional ways. That makes the final difference.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

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.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.