Quotes About Ideas

There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty—the power of ideas.

But don't I have any freedom of speech?" "In your own house. Not in mine." "Don't I have a right to my own ideas?" "At your own expense. Not at mine." "Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?" "Not when I'm paying the bills.

Zeev Sternhell has conclusively demonstrated that nearly all the ideas found in fascism and nazism first appeared in France.

Le idee sono come le tette, se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono gonfiare.

Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past!

Se ci fosse un cacciavite per togliere le idee sbagliate e un martello per fissare le buone intenzioni, una chiave inglese per stringere per sempre l'amore e una sega per tagliare col passato! Ma questa attrezzeria non ce l'hanno data e, dopo aver tentennato e scricchiolato, prima o poi ci romperemo.

Sa come dice la regola giornalistica: se due persone dicono di litigare per le proprie idee, sembrerà che abbiano davvero delle idee.

Nearly) all thinking is associative. While it's easy to spot the obvious metaphorical associations ("iceberg"), associations go all the way down to conceptual ideas (up is good) to more fundamental associations that began perhaps in the womb with spatial orientation.

Associations among concepts is thinking.

E quando eu disse a ela que já os tinha lido, ela me fez umas perguntas muito longas, que na verdade eram apenas as ideias dela com um ponto de interrogação no final.

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.

I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations.

Words cannot describe all the things I have left to write

No, but that Oxford and his smart friends, they've changed him. Ideas, that's what it is. I said, What use is ideas when you've a capon to baste and the tally-man's due any minute? Name an idea, I said, that can get the front steps scrubbed, the sausages pricked and the navel oranges squeezed in time for a meat tea and finger buffet. Well, he didn't know which way to look.

one can never be too sure of an idea until it is tested against nature.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions.

la buena literatura podía ser embriagadora sin renunciar al hilo conductor de las ideas.

the brain doesn't age, although its ideas about the world may harden and there's a greater tendency to run off at the mouth about how things were in the good old days.

A man who cant discuss ideas, especially those that are not a reflection of him, is not open to himself

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.