Quotes About Ideas

People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.

Even the night sky frightens the narcissist, as presenting impossible-to-deny evidence of a world exterior to the self. Narcissists therefore tend to stay indoors, live in ideas, and demand compliance and assent from everyone they come in contact with, who are all regarded as servants, or ghosts. And as death approaches, they do their best to destroy as much of the world as they can.

monocausotaxophilia, the love of single ideas that explain everything, one of humanity's most common cognitive errors.

Thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.

During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on, adding new ideas that occurred to me in the course of the day, crossing out material or freshening up the dead passages with a lively word here or there, and pushing on from sentence to sentence with great labor.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.