Isaiah Berlin Quotes
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin
Quotes to Explore
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
Ian Hacking
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
Olivia Thirlby
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
Lapo Elkann
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
Sam Harris
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Edith Head
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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.
Ferdinand Christian Baur
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There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
Daniel Boulud
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
Nate Silver
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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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.
G. H. Hardy
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Oscar Wilde
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You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.
Chester Bennington
Linkin Park
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Playing Through: Straight Talk on Hard Work, Big Dreams, and Adventures with Tiger.
Earl Woods
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
Vernor Vinge
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It’s true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.
Harry Mathews
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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin
