We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.
Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
Thinking is the highest form of leverage.
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Sankhachil' did not have a script, to begin with. It was just a thought.
I have certain viewpoints that come out in certain shayaris.
Caste hasn't been a part of creative thoughts and it never will be.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.
Take the risk of thinking for yourself
Creative thought must always contain a random component.
Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.
Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
