Quotes About Ideas

Show business is stale ideas and stale actors.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if they are good enough, songs get their way in.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade majesty John Stuart Mill' and revered by others.

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

What divides men is less a difference in ideas than a likeness in pretensions.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.