Ashley Judd Quotes

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

My brain is open.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important - they just don't understand what it is.

Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. … the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

Without theory we can only copy.

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

One must be an inventor to read well.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

The critical mind is the creative mind.

Education is not just you learn how a mosquito flies in the rain, but you learn how to be creative and why it's exciting to learn things and create things and make up new things.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.