Quotes About Ideas

Dopeler effect n. The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

Combinatorics allow a finite set of simple ideas to give rise to an Infinite set of complex ones.

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I'm not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that's a fact.

Our gloomy Presbyterian ideas encourage fear of God, not love for him.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.

I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.

recalled a quote I picked up somewhere: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Without free speech there is no true thought.

The internet is a graveyard of dead facts. But an idea that grips a person is alive

Additionally, the fact that religious ideas are capable of uniting vast numbers of people under a single moral umbrella (although such ideas can divide across sects, as well) also indicates something universal calling from within.

There are billions of dead facts. The internet is a graveyard of dead facts. But an idea that grips a person is alive. It wants to express itself, to live in the world.

Almost all ideas are wrong. It doesn't matter if they are your ideas or someone else's ideas. Your job is to assume that they are probably wrong, and then to assault them with every thing you have in your arsenal, and see if they can survive.

Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it.

Surgiram-lhe um começo de calvície, idéias conservadoras, hábitos monarcos e a ambição de terras e bovinos: como se vê, homem completamente recuperado para a sociedade, a família e o latifúndio.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not exist; the only thing that mattered was the temperament of the artist; the only thing of interest was the way his brain worked, regardless of the subject he was treating.

If Baudelaire, in hieroglyphics of the soul, had deciphered the return of the age of the sentiment and ideas, Poe, in the field of morbid psychology had more especially investigated the domain of the soul.