Ideas Quotes

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

All ideas grow out of other ideas.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

Apart from sharing my tips on toys or snacks, I'm open to hearing new ideas from other moms. I want to learn, too.

But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job.

A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.