Quotes About Ideas

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.

Writing is taking human experience and wrapping it up into a package of your own ideas and hoping someone will pull the bow smiling on top to see what's hiding inside.

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode.

You can't manage a project. You can only mange your thoughts to come up with better ideas to do the project in a better way.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts

Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

Ideas are the seeds of invention and actions are the fertilizers.

Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation.

Fantastic ideas often come from fantasy.

Fear of new ideas breeds angry head spiders that have been known to attack.

The mind is the most fertile land. What you plant, it will grow.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

Thoughts are things that we can't see or feel yet.