Divergent Thinking Quotes

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Minds differ still more than faces.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Thinking differently is my strength.

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society…

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

I only came to Paris with the intention of showing what I thought was strong and beautiful. It just so happened that my notion was different from everybody else's.

When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.

To think is to differ.

You can only make a difference by being different.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

I think people are looking for an alternative because in addition to there being sort of a myopic, lemming - like ants on a sugar cube mentality on this DNS attack story by many in the media, there's just this culture of sameness. Everybody sounds the same.