Ideas Quotes

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a cert...

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous idea...

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the ne...

In other words, The­ol­ogy is prac­ti­cal: espe­cially now. In the old days, when there was less edu...

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by th...

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters to sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sa...

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most sk...

the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuab...

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an op...

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possib...

E! has just become a sad, sad place to live. They don't know what they're doing; they have no ideas....

His optimism blinded her. He was full of plans. "I have an idea!" he said often. She imagined him as...

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and...

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views...

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...

The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apat...

But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some ...

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person...

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than wi...

The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in t...

Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in ...

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like push...

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I lo...

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The...

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robb...

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and h...

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furnit...

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and o...

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in...

Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change yo...

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they...

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day...

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who ar...

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it...

our heads were full of nebulous ideas, which cast an idealized, almost romantic glow over life

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the ...

The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always starte...

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die fo

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation ...

A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, li...

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design tha...

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the l...

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins ...

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing...

For parlour use the vague generality is a lifesaver.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind...

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason,...

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each...

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, f...

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing...

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect c...

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas o...

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about...

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into...

But a far more virulent strain survived. It's having sex with your thoughts. You'll give birth to in...

Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.

Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, ...

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick an...

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the sugges...

Bodisham insisted upon a series of conferences with practically all the Group present and participat...

If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.

But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with the...

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man wh...

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.

I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads ...

I could go on like this forever, but would I ever find a place that was meant for me? Like, for exam...

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" a...

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, t...

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They ...

In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened b...

Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ...

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find...

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I mig...

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are t...

Ideas control the world.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutali...

We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and t...

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Roy...

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your per...