Quotes About Ideas

Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do!

Great master Lao Tzu says that 'The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.' Giving is indeed a very good source of happiness! One of the best treasures a man can give to someone is a good and sound idea; because birds can ascend into the sky only with wings, and men, only with good and sound ideas!

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

Let the ideas clash, let the swords sleep!

Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.

Only idiots die for an idea! Life is greater and infinitely more valuable than all the ideas!

Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!

People are ready to take the good things into their minds! Give them good and right ideas; they will immediately take them as if they are taking beautiful flowers!

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.

To defeat all their enemies and be victorious! This is the unpreventable destiny of all the great ideas!

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others' ideas to be realized.

A written language brings precision, forces ideas into steady shapes, secures against loss. Once the words are on the page they are there to be challenged and embellished by those who come across them later.

Aos 10 anos todos nos dizem que somos espertos, mas que nos faltam ideias próprias. Aos 20 anos dizem que somos muito espertos, mas que não venhamos com ideias. Aos 30 anos pensamos que ninguém mais tem ideias. Aos 40 achamos que as ideias dos outros são todas nossas. Aos 50 pensamos com suficiente sabedoria para já não ter ideias. Aos 60 ainda temos ideias mas esquecemos do que estávamos a pensar. Aos 70 só pensar já nos faz dorrmir.

As ideais, todos sabemos, não nascem na cabeça das pessoas. Começam num qualquer lado, são fumos soltos, tresvairados, rodando à procura de uma devida mente

I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?

The great ideas arise when you give freedom," declared the Rockefeller Foundation's Warren Weaver—"freedom to think, freedom from other pressures—to individuals of great intellectual capacity . . . and let them be motivated primarily by their curiosity to find out how nature operates.

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy.