Quotes
Quotes about Ideas
If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
Deep sighted in intelligence, Ideas, atoms, influences.
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledgeâthey will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
The path to the Mideast is littered with Nobel peace laureates who have not yet achieved what can only be achieved in each heart.
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
