Ken Robinson Quotes

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.

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

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

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

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

What we do and accomplish is only the tip of the iceberg of what's possible for us.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.

Some things were made to be felt

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.