Ideas Quotes

"Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas." "It is in dialogue and the sharing of ideas with others that we make sense of ourselves." "A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow" "We should be building great things that don't exist" "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them" "True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth." "The three most damaging words in the history of mankind are 'a great idea'" "The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." "The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are principally these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which way it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence. This is called abstraction and thus all its general ideas are made." "Just because it's a great idea doesn't mean it'll work." "There is more than one way to burn a book." "It's not about having a lot of money. It's about having a lot of ideas" "Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet but soon will." "The value of an idea has nothing to do with its truth." "Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be" "There’s no such thing as a new idea, it’s a new perspective" "The world doesn’t need more ideas; it needs more action" "My train of thought is traveling" "You don’t have to start from scratch to do something interesting" "One concept corrupts and confuses the others"