Quotes About Ideas

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

The conversations changed after '91," says Guy Picciotto. "Before, people talked about ideas and music. And then after that, people talked about money and deals.

In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity—our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.

I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what's already been set in motion.

Nulla dà maggior potere sugli uomini che la menzogna. Perché gli uomini, figliolo, vivono di idee. E quelle si possono guidare come si vuole.

I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process." Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.

conversation really matters. Converse means exchange with. It does not mean transmit at. That's how you get new thinking.

Theories for Amos were like mental pockets or briefcases, places to put the ideas you wanted to keep. Until you could replace a theory with a better theory—a theory that better predicted what actually happened—you didn't chuck a theory out. Theories ordered knowledge, and allowed for better prediction.

If that involved some misperception on Amos's part—some exaggeration of the earthly status of Danny's ideas—well, then, Amos should continue to misperceive. After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else? "I wanted something from him, not from the world," said Danny.

I've always felt ideas were a dime a dozen," he said. "If you had one that didn't work out, you should not fight too hard to save it, just go find another.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, he said, because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process. Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.

Statistics wasn't just boring numbers; it contained ideas that allowed you to glimpse deep truths about human life. "Because

Instead of presenting a catalog of all known creative techniques and abandoning you to puzzle out which ones actually work, I started with the ideas (fish) and worked backwards to each creator (fisherman). Then I identified the technique that caught the idea.

Set yourself an idea quota for a challenge you are working on, such as five new ideas every day for a week. You'll find the first five are the hardest, but these will quickly trigger other ideas. The more ideas you come up with, the greater your chances of coming up with a winner.

You have to record your own ideas, as, so far as I know, there is no store that sells Cliffs Notes on your past thoughts.

Why are they blockading Cuba? Because no other country has done more for its people. It's the hatred of the ideas that Cuba represents.

Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where they're more easily buffeted by a strong idea or a breeze of fashion.

Alone among the animals, we humans insist that our food be not only "good to eat"—tasty, safe, and nutritious—but also, in the words of Claude Lévi-Strauss, "good to think," for among all the many other things we eat, we also eat ideas.

Being a poet, the advantages of dyslexia are many, affording me sensitivity to the musical nuances of language and the ability to juggle complicated ideas and narratives simultaneously.

I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.

'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marvel retreats we have a couple times a year. We have all these ideas floating around for a bit before we figure out how to align them.