Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. —Howard H. Aiken More about this quote Tags: ideas vision innovation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. —Alfred Whitney Griswold More about this quote Tags: history ideas censorship quality books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. —Walt Disney More about this quote Tags: future ideas curiousity progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: intelligence ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: war ideas death nobility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. —Charles Brower More about this quote Tags: ideas growth 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: ideas cliches platitudes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. —Edwin Land More about this quote Tags: history ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. —Sara Teasdale More about this quote Tags: ideas thoughts wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. —Ken Hakuta More about this quote Tags: accomplishment ideas money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Tags: knowledge ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: love life ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. —Alfred North Whitehead More about this quote Tags: action life ideas thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ideas shape the course of history. —John Maynard Keynes More about this quote Tags: history ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day … we become seekers. —Peter Matthiessen More about this quote Tags: ideas ego opinions abstractions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email