We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

It’s not how great the ideas are. It’s about how you write them, to make them great.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

My grandfather would jump out of his grave and say, ‘Fill the public terrain with new ideas,’ … Don’t argue that someone can’t speak about their faith. Encourage more ideas about faith.

If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right…it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people’s ideas, to see if they’re similar to mine.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

I am going to try to lower the temperature if I can. We’re just exploring ideas, particularly over the weekend when the legislature’s not sitting.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the...

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I don’t put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

Sometimes,many precious moments in life are lost in making-up our mind to work with an idea or a solution that is easy to find.

This is an idea that has been shared with the administration, one of many ideas and many ideas are under consideration.

Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan or some sort of...

Truth, says instrumentalism, is what works out, that which does what you expect it to do. The judgment is true when you can “bank” on it and not be disappointed. If, when you predict, or...

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers!

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

It takes more than coming up with some great ideas to succeed in life. The land of success is only full of doers.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry...

We have an in-depth exchange of ideas on a number of issues and I am very interested in further pursing our discussions covering bilateral relations and questions of shared interests.

We want to support the teachers’ ideas and projects.

The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front...

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

You can go get ideas from any institution, other museum, or public space. Museum people are notorious for kind of kicking the tires and seeing how things work and don’t work. For example, one place...

Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin’s officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto...

It’s a great fit for what we do. I have ideas about how to grow the magazine… I believe readers in this market want inside baseball. BIBR can really blow that up.

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy – which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest – is too callous for...

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Don’t just hope the big idea is going to come, make it happen

I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to...

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there’s a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with...

To emend one’s thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in–sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove...

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous – they contain ideas.

The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating...

We have a lot of ideas forming and brainstorming, and we’re going to apply for the funds next semester.

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is...

I would say for the young: Don’t be straight jacketed by ideology. Don’t be driven by a structure of ideas.

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to...

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.