Ideas Quotes
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out
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Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.
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I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.
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[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.
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Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.
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The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not.
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
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I'm going forward, so my clothing line is kind of the physicalization of that. The idea of diversity, of uniqueness, of individuality - that's what this is all about.
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Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.
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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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If everyone believes in your ideas, they’re probably not that great.
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I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
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When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.
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The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.
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There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.
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To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
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A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
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As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on.
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Bad ideas make the best memories.
