Quotes About Ideas

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives