Aldous Huxley Quotes

There is no off position on the genius switch.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

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

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

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

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Genius is childhood recalled at will.