Quotes About Ideas

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

To maintain that "all ideas are respectable" is nothing but pompous nonsense. Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a sufficient number of imbeciles does not oblige one to put up with. Let us not disguise our impotence as tolerance.

No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.

The defeated reactionary always retains the option of entertaining himself with the victor's simplistic ideas.

The intellectual irritates the civilized man, just as the adolescent irritates the adult, not because of the audacity of his bright ideas but because of the triviality of his arrogance.

I am the asylum of all the ideas displaced by modern ignominy.

We reactionaries are unfortunate: the left steals our ideas and the right our vocabulary.

It is possible to inculcate in the contemporary bourgeois any stupid idea in the name of progress and to sell him any grotesque object in the name of art.

Yoga is about opening ourselves to improvement and new ideas, rather than remaining stuck in the closed loops of deep subconscious patterns.

Whate'er is well conceived is clearly said,And the words to say it flow with ease.

The things you know best are: first, those you know intuitively; second, those you've learned from experience; third, those you've learned not from but through books and the ideas they've inspired in you; and finally, those you've learned in books and from your teachers.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Free speech does indeed cause hurt—but there is nothing wrong in this. Knowledge advances through the destruction of bad ideas. Mockery

How strangely are things compounded! In a trice may joy turn to sorrow, should one halt long enough over it: in a trice only God can say what ideas may strike one.

competition between companies is at least in part a competition between different moral ideas.

Follow the words, not the person.

His job is to communicate information and ideas, and how is he supposed to do that when language itself has become meaningless?

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

All philosophers and all sociologists draw their scientific ideas from the sources available at their time.

The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.