Quotes About Ideas

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

The importance of novels and short stories in our society is great. Fiction supplies the only philosophy that many readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world. The movies have not undermined the influence of fiction. On the contrary, they have extended its field, carrying the ideas which are already current among reader to those too young, too impatient, or too uneducated to read.

If our belief in the authority of the Bible means anything, it means that we must submit to what the Bible teaches and bring our own perceptions and ideas into line with Scripture.

If there remains any overriding idea it is that ideas are a problem. If there is any remaining commonly held value judgement it is that value judgements are wrong. If there remains any remaining certainty it is a distrust of certainty. And if this does not add up to a philosophy it certainly adds up to an attitude: shallow, unlikely to survive any sustained onslaught, but easy enough to adopt.

When it comes to the history of ideas, it is relatively simple to show that religious toleration, which includes tolerating verbal expressions of ideas repugnant to you, is an idea that germinated in Christian soil. In Christian history, we see it as early as Lactantius (an early church father who tutored Constantine's kids), and it comes to full bloom in the American Bill of Rights. Letting other people express their errors without fear of reprisal is a distinctively Christian ideal.

Secularism refers to the idea, popular for the last few centuries, that it is in fact possible for nations to be religiously neutral.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Las ideas son algoritmos y éstos no son otra cosa más que patrones organizados que contienen (en una estructura) cantidades enormes de información codificada

El error y verdadero pecado es la identificación con una idea particular, puesto que allí el crecimiento se obstruye y bloquea. En cambio, sin identificación todo fluye y se fluye en el todo sin ningún obstáculo.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

Oh, the thinks you can think!

I'm naive enough to believe that society will be changed by examination of ideas through books and the press and that information can prove to be greater than the dissemination of stupidity.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

All the world needs are examples of people capable of living out their dreams and fighting for their ideas.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas.

I can only think of so many good ideas in a week. Having other people contribute makes my life easier.

Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.