Quotes About Ideas

We have of the universe only inchoate, fragmentary visions, which we complement by arbitrary associations of ideas, creative of dangerous illusions.

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows; when the latter change into ideas they lose part of their noxious action on our hearts and even at the first instant their very transformation disengages a feeling of joy. Substitutes only in the order of time, however, for it would seem that the first element is idea and that sorrow is only the mode in which certain ideas first enter us.

There are far fewer ideas than men, therefore all men with similar ideas are alike. As

Besides he was out of sympathy with the modern Sorbonne, where ideas of scientific exactitude, after the German model, were beginning to prevail over humanism.

blows and shouts being indeed no more than expressions of the confused ideas which exhilarated me, and which, not being developed to the point at which they might rest exposed to the light of day, rather than submit to a slow and difficult course of elucidation, found it easier and more pleasant to drift into an immediate outlet.

for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. Besides,

when he is not misunderstood by those around him, that the feeling on their part which proves that the superiority of his intelligence has compelled their recognition is not their admiration for his ideas, since these are beyond them, but their respect for his goodness.

All men with similar ideas are alike.

But ideas transform themselves in us, they overcome our initial resistance to them, and feed upon rich reserves of intellect that existed ready-made for them without our knowing.

But the ideas that leave no possibility of a rejoinder are those that are not properly speaking ideas, those that, by being supported by nothing, find nothing to attach to in the other's mind: on the one side, no brotherly branch is held out, and on the other, there is nothing but a vacuum. The arguments advanced by M. de Norpois (on questions of art) were indisputable because they were devoid of reality.

Las ideas de los grandes hombres son el patrimonio común de la humanidad mientras que a ellos en realidad apenas les quedan ciertas extravagancias. El libro que describiera a un hombre con todas sus anomalías sería una obra similar a la estampa japonesa que nunca deja de incluir la imagen de una pequeña oruga captada por casualidad a una hora particular del día".

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

One can't build a skyscraper out of ideas, and one can't build models without concepts and laws.

Her mind raced with millions of violent and spectacular thoughts and ideas and in the centre of herself, she stored a passion which might terrify people if they suspected it.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Se menos curioso acerca de las personas y más curioso acerca de las ideas.

Repetition is a key principle in neuroplasticity. It's how we rewire our brains and turn good ideas into permanent new ways of being and behaving.

We're born creators with an innate power to bring our ideas and visions into reality.

Many of our most deeply held convictions are hand-me-downs. They're old, unexamined, and unquestioned ideas that we innocently accepted from others.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.