Cease Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from…

— Dalai Lama

Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of…

— John W. Gardner

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

— Paula Gunn Allen

In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible…

— Ai Weiwei

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

“Creative people are constantly surprised. They don’t assume that they understand what is happening around them, and they don’t assume that anybody else does…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Creativity can replace conformity as the primary mode of social being. . . . We can cling to that which is passing, or has…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

— Pharrell Williams

Some people in our society specialise in stopping creative people from doing what they do.

— Manoj Kumar

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

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.'…

— Jonah Lehrer

“Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to imagine possibilities and then turn those possibilities into realities. Evident in the gifts of civilization—in our arts,…

— Scott Edmund Miller