Quotes about Ideas

Ama eÄŸer büyük fikirleriniz varsa onlar? ifade edebilmek için büyük kelimeler kullanman?z gerekir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Do you understand the theory of that affair? replied my father.   Not I, quoth my uncle.   Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã¢â‚¬But you have some ideas, said my father, of what you talk about.—   No more than my horse, replied my uncle Toby.

A true feeler always brings half the entertainment along with him. His own ideas are only call'd forth by what he reads, and the vibrations within, so entirely correspond with those excited, 'tis like reading himself and not the book .

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

philosophy of religion comes into being when both religion and philosophy claim to offer ideas about ultimate problems.

A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.

I think it is fair to say that in the Western church, we have by and large lost the art of disciple making. We have done so partly because we have reduced it to the intellectual assimilation of ideas, partly because of the abiding impact of cultural Christianity embedded in the Christendom understanding of church, and partly because the phenomenon of consumerism in our own day pushes against a true following of Jesus.

Left to their own devices, most organizations tend toward a sort of sociological conservatism that will increasingly forgo engagement with their context in favor of preserving what they see as their repository of inherited ideas. In other words, they turn away from missional engagement and toward an increasingly traditionalist, sentimental interpretation of reality. Instead of looking forward to a possible future of which they are called to be a part, they look back to an idealized past.

As you develop your list, a little voice inside you will whisper, "It will take more than courage to pursue these ideas; it will take capital." At that point you may be tempted to put down your pen and retreat to the safety and comfort of how things have always been done. But before you retreat to your tent, let me remind you of two things: Capital follows courage, and what always precedes how.

Keep in mind that everything you loathe about your current environment or organization was originally somebody's good idea.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.