Quotes About Ideas

There is no mechanism of selection in the history of ideas akin to that of the natural selection of genetic mutations in evolution

forming the ideas that were to pit him so vehemently against Mary in later years.

Living movements do not come of committees, nor are great ideas worked out through the post, even though it had been the penny post.

Old Lowji's nasty remark would haunt Farrokh forever: "Immigrants are immigrants all their lives!" Once someone makes such a negative pronouncement, you might refute it but you never forget it; some ideas are so vividly planted, they become visible objects, actual things.

To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them.

C'é infatti un numero considerevole di persone di cultura convinte che qualsiasi sforzo riuscito per rendere le idee vive, intellegibili e interessanti sia una manifestazione di scarso rigore professionale. E' questa la fortezza dentro la quale regolarmente si rifugiano.

To settle for anything less than certainty about the truth of the ideas guiding you in the pursuit of your goals would be to leave your life literally to chance.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.