Quotes About Idea

The Internet promised a truly global egalitarian age. That was the idea, anyway. The international and unstructured nature of the thing was vital to these early Internet idealists. If knowledge is power, then power at long last would reside where it belonged, with the people, all people!

I can tell you only that beauty cannot be expressed or explained in a theory or an idea, that it moves by its own law, that it is God's way of comforting His broken children.

Taking an idea, a central point, and pursuing it, turning it into a story that tells something about the way we live today, is the essence of narrative journalism.

So even Cicero imagined moveable type, but only in his polemic as an absurd idea. He used the phrase formae literarum, and when moveable type was finally made some sixteen centuries later, that is the name they gave it—though it was not such an absurd idea after all.

America did not teach men the idea of freedom; she taught them how to practice it.

When a man gets into his head an idea that the public voice calls for him, it is astonishing how great becomes his trust in the wisdom of the public.

For the King's distaste at the idea of a mistress, Marie Antoinette can hardly be blamed; yet somehow she was turned into the scapegoat of this upsetting of the natural order of things-as the French court saw it.

And do you know what the Americans and the Russians make their atoms with? They make them with the microbes of god. - You are raving, Mr Artaud. You are mad. - I am not raving. I am not mad. I'm telling you that microbes have been reinvented in order to impose a new idea of god.

I must think of something foolproof for a fool.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La habilidad de exponer una idea es tan importante como la idea en sí misma (Aristóteles)

The case is similar with the idea as well: even if there is some one good thing that is predicated [of things] in common, or there is some separate thing, itself by itself, it is clear that it would not be subject to action or capable of being possessed by a human being.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman. [Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]

Do you think this wild idea might work?" "It's insane," growled Boaz. "Utter lunacy, too far-fetched to be credible. Of course it'll work.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain," said Lord Byron, enunciating a basic Romantic idea and, perhaps, hoping that goblins, ghosts, and demons provided some necessary release

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

At one point in the course of this discussion, the idea took possession of us that culture was a peculiar process passing over human life and we are still under the influence of this idea.

it seems as though Descartes (once more influenced by ideas from previous philosophical traditions) may have slipped into thinking that an idea of X actually shares X. So an idea of infinity, for instance, would be an infinite idea.

When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays also the gap between his world view and his egotistical dreams.

The idea becomes a machine that makes art.

Bex...why did you buy an inflatable canoe?' 'It's for you to lie on. Or something.' 'And a watering can?' 'I couldn't find a plant spray.'Breathlessly I start shoving bags into the taxi. 'But why do I need a plant spray?' 'Look,it wasn't my idea, OK?' I say defensively.

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.