Quotes about Ideas

Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

These cause the ideas of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst

The abyss sometimes has these thoughtful ideas; but you will do well to beware of its kindness.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.

The time for it has come, and it would indeed be strange if, in the present age, liberty, like light, should penetrate everywhere, except into that one place where freedom finds its most natural realm - in the world of ideas.

for she knows that the contrast between what Leroy used to say and what he's professing today doesn't matter in the slightest. Because one idea is as good as another. Because all statements and positions carry the same value, can rub against one another, nestle, snuggle, fondle, mingle, diddle, cuddle, couple.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.