Quotes About Ideas

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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though live ideas are born out of it. Worms, also, feed upon corpses.

If librarianship is the connecting of people to ideas – and I believe that is the truest definition of what we do – it is crucial to remember that we must keep and make available, not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas, silly ideas, and yes, even dangerous or wicked ideas.

Some use a slideshow program's outline view to build a structure on which they can hang all their ideas, and then easily rearrange them by moving slides around. Use your big ideas as headings. Then break those down into their component parts. Then explain those parts with sentences.

We'll shape them through their memes," he said. "We'll kill off the bad memes, and help spread the ones we want to succeed.

Le idee sono spesso surrogate dalle emozioni. Sono più dure a morire, resistono meglio al tempo e tanto meglio quanto più sono irrazionali.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune.

We can learn from the ad agencies and start forming our own personal and internal marketing campaigns in the first person singular with strong emotional components, thusly promoting the new ideas and habits that we want to incorporate.

Without action, we can relegate ideas about social harmony and bridge-building to the realm of wishful thinking.

The ideas of the past, although half destroyed, being still very powerful, and the ideas which are to replace them being still in process of formation, the modern age represents a period of transition and anarchy.

The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.

Man, like animals, has a natural tendency to imitation. Imitation is a necessity for him, provided always that the imitation is quite easy. It is this necessity that makes the influence of what is called fashion so powerful. Whether in the matter of opinions, ideas, literary manifestations, or merely of dress, how many persons are bold enough to run counter to the fashion?

It is not easy to say as yet what will one day be evolved from this necessarily somewhat chaotic period. What will be the fundamental ideas on which the societies that are to succeed our own will be built up? We do not at present know. Still it is already clear that on whatever lines the societies of the future are organised, they will have to count with a new power, with the last surviving sovereign force of modern times, the power of crowds.

Men are ruled by ideas, sentiments, and customs—matters which are of the essence of ourselves. Institutions and laws are the outward manifestation of our character, the expression of its needs. Being its outcome, institutions and laws cannot change this character.

The disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning of feelings and ideas in an identical direction by means of suggestion and contagion, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.

When, however, it is proposed to imbue the mind of a crowd with ideas and beliefs—with modern social theories, for instance—the leaders have recourse to different expedients. The principal of them are three in number and clearly defined—affirmation, repetition, and contagion. Their action is somewhat slow, but its effects, once produced, are very lasting.

?nsan? yöneten, özümüzdeki unsurlard?r, yani fikirler, duygular ve adetler. Kurumlar ve kanunlarsa ruhumuzun harici kar??l???, ihtiyaçlar?n?n bir ifadesidir.

Hay deseos que se ahogan en nuestra alma de mujer, sin que los revele más que un suspiro; ideas locas que cruzan por nuestra imaginación, sin que ose formularlas el labio, fenómenos incomprensibles de nuestra naturaleza misteriosa, que el hombre no puede ni aun concebir.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

capitalism could appropriate even the most radical ideas and return them safely in the form of harmless ideologies.

Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity considerably without contributing much to the ability to express ideas. English, for instance, would have losed none of its expressive power if some of its verbs leaved their irregular past tense behind and becomed regular.

As earl as the seventeenth century, John Locke recognized that in the realm of abstract notions each language is allowed to carve up its own concepts -- or "specific ideas" as he called them -- in its own way.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.