Quotes About Ideas

Whether thoughts and ideas manifest in a material outcome depends on our transmission of them into perceived reality.

Esclavas nuevas, ideas viejas

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. So I still act as though my feelings were the center of everything, and they still cause me to end up alone by the living-room window late at night.

Unlike other reformers, Luther rarely claimed divine inspiration for his ideas. It is interesting too that he uses the word Kunst—art—for it suggests that the insight, like the skill of a craftsman or artist, opened up a whole new ability to accomplish things in a different way.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

There are so many great stories that happen in real life there's really no need to think them up at all. I always tell children I have got idea antennae flapping around waiting to grab ideas as they fly past.

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

The books he had read, the people he had met, and the ideas in which he had steeped himself for three years had transformed him.

Madison was also developing another idea: that the absence of clashing ideas and competing interests leads to overreaching and corruption.

Our brains are always busy, even when we're not trying. They take all of the events and information of our days and try to make them fit together. Try to make sense of them. And now and then, two or three pieces of information fit together in an unexpected way. This is called "getting an idea.

The word "emergence" seemed to crop up frequently. And most of all, there was this incredible energy and camaraderie in the air-a sense of barriers crumbling, a sense of new ideas let loose, a sense of spontaneous, unpredictable, open-ended freedom. In an odd, intellectual sort of way, the artificial life workshop felt like a throwback, like something right out of the Vietnam-era counterculture. And, of course, in an odd, intellectual sort of way, it was.

windows"—a brainstorm that had hit Kay one day while he was in the shower, his favorite place to think.

There was this thread of ideas that led from Vannevar Bush through J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay

when I think of really living, living to the full — all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms.

They're all sitcom openers." "What?" "Everything I think of when I think of really living, living to the full – all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms. See what I mean? My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits. My god. What am I, without the feed? It's all from the feed credits. My idea of real life.

That year, it was as if the city was built of ideas and argument: People walked across a pavement of propaganda, and the walls were plastered with posters. Buildings were coated in debates. Type ran in every direction. Newspapers sprang up, printed a few issues in flurries, then died.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

Instead he discouraged his cabinet from proposing any idea that might cause him to doubt his instincts, which were, he insisted, always right.

The challenge to Jacob-Israel is to turn to Yahweh and be willing to submit to his intention regarding the fulfillment of his purpose, rather than continuing to insist on working with its own ideas about how that should work out (Is 55:6-13).

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Cei ce ne educ? îngr?m?desc în noi atâtea idei vechi, opinii învechite, vechi modalit??i de acÈ›iune. Ca È™i cum ai acoperi plantele cu straturi peste straturi de p?mânt vechi. Nici nu e de mirare c? bietele ml?diÈ›e care r?sar sunt rareori verzi È™i proaspete.

Oricum, de cum m-am trezit din somn am început s? am idei mai rezonabile. AÈ™a sunt eu: seara la culcare nu v?d decât partea neagr? a lucrurilor È™i m? trezesc cu idei diferite dimineaÈ›a.

As commonly practised, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs' 'There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution' 'Human knowledge is one thing, human well-being is another.There is no predetermined harmony between the two' 'In the struggle for life, the taste for truth is a luxury-or else a disability