Ideas Quotes

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...

[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially politi...

What a revolution in her ideas!

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for...

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a prof...

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's bus...

YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the f...

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is alwa...

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas...

I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people...

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories....

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level...

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies t...

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of ques...

We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it cou...

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if...

And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of ...

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myt...

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso...

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hou...

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs ...

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's ab...

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong...

Ideas shape the course of history.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the...

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with natur...

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to asse...

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

The material universe exists only in the mind.

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

The best ideas start as conversations.

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little...

... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as ...

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave m...

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, fro...

As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' sta...

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruli...

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe ther...

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it ha...

[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it...

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas ...

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that f...

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

I have no ideas, myself! Not a one! there's nothing more vulgar, more common, more disgusting than i...

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Idea...

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man decla...

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of idea...

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his ow...

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire ...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writer...

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a ...

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head ...

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...