Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
Quotes to Explore
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
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Every idea has its time.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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Even today I work with Niall O'Brien, who is far more technically astute than I am, but I still have the clearest idea of every detail I want in my photograph.
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I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives in little, tiny ways.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe ? Another act of willing?
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Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.
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The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive solution to the energy needs of the world. ... The real issue is whether their blueprints will work in the real world and not only in a "technological paradise."... Opponents of fission energy point out a number of differences between the real world and the "technological paradise." ... No acts of God can be permitted.
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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.
