What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Ideas Quotes
He objected to ideas only when others had them.
He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and the improvement of his conditions, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like […]
In a war of ideas it is the people who get killed.
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to those of Jesus.
I wish there were some cure, like the lover’s leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
The only big ideas I’ve ever had have come from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled, by someone else – at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a […]
