As an academic, I like dissenting ideas, because out of them comes a deeper understanding of how things are or should be.
Ideas Quotes
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas.
The primary reason ideas die quickly in some minds is because they can’t survive in solitary confinement.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Funny thing about ideas; they never work unless you do.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
