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Quotes About Ideas

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.
~ H. Beam Piper
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
~ H. G. Wells
Although Mandelbrot made the most comprehensive geometric use of it, the return of scaling ideas to science in the 1960s and 1970s became an intellectual current that made itself felt simultaneously in many places.
~ James Gleick
Shallow ideas can be assimilated; ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
~ James Gleick
Mathematical Ideas in Biology
~ James Gleick
We're just ordinary people, simply doing our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
We're just ordinary people, simply doing our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are paintings of ideas. The deepest poetry of Shelley, the words of Hamlet bring our mind into contact with the eternal wisdom; Plato's world of ideas. All the rest is the speculation of schoolboys for schoolboys.
~ James Joyce
Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
~ James Joyce
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real. It must be. What are our ideas or ambitions? Play. Ideas! Why, that bloody bleating goat Temple has ideas. MacCann has ideas too. Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.
~ James Joyce
a zis ca am niste idei bizare si c-am citit prea mult. inexact. am citit prea putin si am inteles si mai putin. apoi a spus c-am sa ma inapoiez la credinta pentru ca am un spirit nelinistit.(...) i-am spus asta si i-am cerut sase penny. mi-a dat trei.
~ James Joyce
Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
~ James Joyce
Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.
~ James Joyce
Me dice que tengo unas ideas muy raras y que he leído demasiado. Falso. he leído poco y entendido menos.
~ James Joyce
Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions is an image of the world that sits unhappily between the manifest image and an out of date scientific image.11
~ James Ladyman
Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions is an image of the world that sits unhappily between
~ James Ladyman
Showing appreciation for another's unique viewpoint demonstrates respect for them and their ideas. Being sensitive to what others are going through creates bonds that make it easier to accept one another's guidance and advice.
~ James M. Kouzes
Cultural categories, in fact, need not constrain us since they can always be used against themselves to open up new possibilities.
~ James M. Redfield
They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.
~ James Patterson
Margo, they're afraid of us. They're afraid of everything.' And then I kept on talking without really thinking, until it turned into a chant: They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.
~ James Patterson
books of my fellow Living History trippers. Or at least get me out of their bad ones. Now to come up with some half-decent ideas for the operation. Some half-decent ideas for Operation: Popularity:
~ James Patterson
I find the ideas of Catholicism incredibly rich and inspiring. Bogus, unfortunately, but nonetheless inspiring. I think they always provide an interesting nexus through which to look at the way we are.
~ Glen Duncan
My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We don't live in a culture of censorship, such as the Soviet Union's; we live in a culture where there is too much information, where words are drowned out, not banned, and important ideas and events are ignored.
~ Anne Applebaum