If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. —Charles Kettering More about this quote Tags: ideas committees bureaucracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: truth ideas language culture Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. —Jean Rostand More about this quote Tags: love ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. —Abraham Lincoln More about this quote Tags: words writing ideas language Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: fear ideas novelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. —Mortimer Adler More about this quote Tags: knowledge ideas facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side. —Charlie Munger More about this quote Tags: learning time ideas destruction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And this is the simple truth — that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. —Soren Kierkegaard More about this quote Tags: truth life ideas tragedy clinging chaos salvation being lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When ideas go unexamined and unchallenged for a long enough time, certain things happen. They become mythological, and they become very, very powerful. They create conformity. They intimidate. —E. L. Doctorow More about this quote Tags: power ideas myth conformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Isn't it nice…once you've outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is. —Taylor Jenkins Reid in After I Do More about this quote Tags: life simplicity ideas enjoyment joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. —Samuel Goldwyn More about this quote Tags: ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
College isn't the place to go for ideas. —Helen Keller More about this quote Tags: education learning ideas college Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A film is a petrified fountain of thought. —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: ideas art thought film movies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. —Ansel Adams More about this quote Tags: ideas explanation concepts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. —Georges Braque More about this quote Tags: ideas painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email