Quotes About Ideas

The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest.

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature

great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. And life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in.

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression

Most importantly, the very inception of the treatment itself necessarily induces a change in the patient's conscious attitude to his illness...that he does not listen carefully enough to what he obsessional ideas are saying to him, or does not grasp the real intention of his obsessional impulse.

At first this gives the impression that the psychical intensity7 of the particular ideas was not taken into consideration at all in their selection for the dream, but only the varying nature and degree of their determination.

The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.

He was a rather quirky worker, and he didn't really fit into the day-to-day business of GCHQ. But in terms of coming up with new ideas he was quite exceptional. You had to sort through some rubbish sometimes, but he was very innovative and always willing to challenge the orthodoxy.

Politics always puts forward Ideas: Nation, Empire, Union, Economy, etc. But none of these forms has value in itself; it has it only insofar as it involves concrete individuals. If a nation can assert itself proudly only to the detriment of its members, if a union can be created only to the detriment of those it is trying to unite, the nation or the union must be rejected. We repudiate all idealisms, mysticisms, etcetera which prefer a Form to man himself.

Les partis les plus inconsistants et les plus strictement organisés sont égaux par le vague de la doctrine [...] Un homme, passât-il sa vie à écrire et à examiner des problèmes d'idées, n'a que très rarement une doctrine. Une collectivité n'en a jamais. Ce n'est pas une marchandise collective.

Which of them said which has never been determined, and does not matter, since they all had the same ideas and expressed them always with the same ponderance and brassy assurance. If it was not Babbitt who was delivering any given verdict, at least he was beaming on the chancellor who did deliver it. (p. 116)

That's rather a broad idea, I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, he answered.

Ha-Ha. Son, they're children, not pets. We're not here to train them. Kids come into this world filled with their own ideas and ways to view the world. It's our job to help them realize those ideas even if they're different than our own. We need to try to see the world through their eyes, not force them to see it through ours.

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

A storyteller's form of healing [is] being a counselor, and healing people with ideas, with stories and kind, loving guidance.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life.