Aneurin Bevan Quotes

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Thinking differently is my strength.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally.

There is a certain method in his madness.

The 21st century does not like tidy minds.

There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

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

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation.

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith or party.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.