"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"

Creativity, Idea, Man, World, Youth

33

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"

Exlpore more Creativity quotes

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Creativity, Inspirational, Imagination, Art

"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Creativity, Language, Humor, Writing, Abuse

"Life is art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Creativity, Art, Life, Expression

"I write more with the words I leave out."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Creativity, Writing, Truth, Wisdom, Expression

"Imagination is phenomenal."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Creativity, Imagination, Phenomenal, Mystery, Beauty

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Creativity, Future, Imagination, Reality, Creation

"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Creativity, Skills, Dreams, Innovation

"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Creativity, Mind, Spark, Divinity

"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Creativity, Genius, Talent, Flaws, Excellence

"Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Creativity, Imagination, Ideas

Explore more quotes by Arthur C. Clarke

"He had sometimes wondered if the real reason why men sought danger was that only thus could they find the companionship and solidarity which they unconsciously craved."

Psychology

"Humor was the enemy of desire."

Desire

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

Elegance

"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical."

Astrology

"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence."

Logic

"But the characteristic that is truly special about our species...[is] our ability to model our world and understand both it and where we fit into its overall scheme."

Cognition

"And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years."

Science

"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."

Beginning

"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."

Limit

"Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children."

Exploration