You know more than you know.

- Jonah Lehrer

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

- Jonah Lehrer

If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which yo…

- Jonah Lehrer

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't…

- Jonah Lehrer

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the …

- Jonah Lehrer

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to …

- Jonah Lehrer

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But somet…

- Jonah Lehrer

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

- Jonah Lehrer

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

- Jonah Lehrer