Quotes About Ideas

Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.

maybe because the dark can only reach people at the extremes-- those bound by their own shiny ideas or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.

Dogma--ideas uninformed by experience--is a form of ingratitude.

The only interesting ideas are heresies.

Only thing that counts are ideas. Behind ideas are [moral] principles. Either one is serious or one is not. Must be prepared to make sacrifices. I'm not a liberal.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought

Acho que não estou pronta para aprender como se escreve. Pensar com palavras, não com ideias.

People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to measure the chilling effect on innovation that results from the threats of taxation, regulation and prosecution against anything that succeeds. We'll never know how many ideas our government has aborted in the name protecting us.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

It is always a good idea to give people problems and let them come up with solutions.

First of all, ideas aren't the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author's unique execution.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

From time to time he consulted books about Islamic jurisprudence, the fikh, in his own collection when confronted with thorny problems in his marriage and his work. But religion did not play a major role in his life. What drove him most was a belief in the power of the written word—the rich variety of human experience and ideas contained between the covers of a book.

If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking depiction of difficult emotions, and an exploration of interesting ideas.

As mature men and women we should regard our minds as a true democracy where all kinds of ideas and emotions should be given freedom of speech.

Unfettered thinking generates the thousand. Analytical thinking helps us see the one that works.

Words are mere tools of the mind

Why should joy be banned forever? Why do they think that thinking is a crime? Why do they put clamps on ideas? The Law's judgments should rest on facts alone, proven, consummated facts.

Make notes—I've lost more material than I've ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it's not still up there in one's brain. It's in outer space and it ain't coming back.

Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of persuasion rather than coercion, ideas rather than force, mutuality rather than authoritarian control.

Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on them. It requires supplying such ingredients as information, experience, anecdotes, and opinions, but then being prepared to have them challenged and to contribute to a new mixture. Conversation

There is nothing wrong with being a woman, and doing ordinary things. Sometimes small deeds can show big ideas.