Common Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without…

— Robert Grudin

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is…

— Abraham Maslow

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

— John Dewey

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.

— Andy Law

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

— Henry Heimlich

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

— Jonah Lehrer

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really…

— Alfred North Whitehead

To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn…

— B. J. Palmer

Every new idea is to challenge old. It also arises from the confusion and occasionally decide to get more ideas are wrong

— Mak_786

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot…

— Brené Brown

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things…

— Jonah Lehrer