Quotes About Ideas

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

To maintain peace in the world, first maintain peace inside of you. A restless mind can never generate beneficial ideas.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus his own ideas, thoughts and philosophies.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or direct them, or sometimes just produce them.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.