Quotes About Ideas

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them.

In making these predictions, I have had the invaluable assistance of scientists who graciously allowed me to interview them, broadcast their ideas on national radio, and even take a TV crew into their laboratories.

Since Einstein derived his famous equation, literally millions of experiments have confirmed his revolutionary ideas.

mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics." And that beauty is symmetry.

Si una idea no parece absurda de entrada, pocas esperanzas hay para ella. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.

You will only receive a negative idea if your mind is fertile ground for that idea.

Expressing what you are is taking action. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.

The human mind is like a fertile ground where seeds are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts.

Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward.

You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action.

A writer isn't a writer because he has a membership card but because he writes. How do you know what bright ideas may not be swarming in my head?

Your membership cards, please, said the woman. This is really all rather funny! said Koroviev, refusing to give up. A writer isn't a writer because he has a membership card but because he writes. How do you know what bright ideas may not be swarming in my head? Or in his head? And he pointed at Behemoth's head. The cat removed its cap to give the woman a better look at its head. Stand back, please, she said, irritated.

Leidenschaften sind nichts anderes als Ideen in ihrem ersten Entwicklungsstadium: sie gehören zur Jugend des Herzens, und ein Dummkopf ist derjenige, der meint, von ihnen ein Leben lang erregt zu werden: viele ruhige Flüsse beginnen als rauschende Wasserfälle, doch keiner springt und schäumt bis zum Meer.

los amores son como los imperios: cuando desaparece la idea sobre la cual han sido construidos, perecen ellos también.

Vlasta me reprocha que soy un soñador. Parece que no veo las cosas tal como son. No, veo las cosas tal como son, pero además de las cosas visibles veo también las invisibles. Las ideas inventadas no son algo inútil. Son precisamente ellas las que hacen de nuestras casas hogares

It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.

Me reprocha que soy un soñador. Parece que no veo las cosas tal como son. No, veo las cosas tal como son, pero además de las cosas visibles veo también las invisibles. Las ideas inventadas no son algo inútil. Son precisamente ellas las que hacen de nuestras casas hogares.

Hay ideas que son como un atentado.

No es la fe de lo que estoy hablando. Son imágenes, ideas. No e por qué tendría que deshacerme de ellas. Me quedaría huérfano sin ellas.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the non-thought of received ideas.

for she knows that the contrast between what Leroy used to say and what he's professing today doesn't matter in the slightest. Because one idea is as good as another. Because all statements and positions carry the same value, can rub against one another, nestle, snuggle, fondle, mingle, diddle, cuddle, couple.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.