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Quotes About Innovation

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
~ Wendell Berry
What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.
~ William Sargant
Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences
~ William James
It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.
~ Danny Boyle
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
~ Dennis Potter
Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
~ Dylan Moran
When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.
~ Elif Batuman
The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.
~ Evan Daugherty
All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.
~ Gustave Flaubert
In science, mistakes always precede the truth
~ Horace Walpole
The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.
~ Jerry Uelsmann
The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.
~ Jonah Peretti
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
~ Michel Seuphor
The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.
~ Neil Gaiman
Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.
~ Nicholas Lore
The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
~ Nolan Bushnell
The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
~ Robert Pollack
The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.
~ Scott D. Anthony
One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.
~ Thea Gilmore
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
~ Wen Jiabao