A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual...

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has...

The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There...

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I’m so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Women’s magazines punish us with their gorgeous photographs of Cameron Diaz’s ass and snappy diet ideas on the next page. I deliberately illustrated the book with generous thighs … and women in track pants. I...

* No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred

Ideas come through us, not from us.

WE ARE the creators of the seeds that we have planted in the past — whether they were happiness, comfort, abundance, prosperity, family, children, ideas, or even thoughts — that are giving birth into our...

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds–the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking...

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I’m a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer – all sorts of things come to me during the day.

There are lots of great ideas in my book, but as a cohesive unit, my book is only held together with glue at the spine. Or it would be, if it weren’t an ebook.

Everything changes as you move through three stages of awareness:first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never...

Trust creates the sharing of ideas, plans, and feelings that becomes a gift that you can treasure.

Give me a bouncy ball. I’ve got some ideas I want to throw at you. Put on your squeaky shoes—we’ve got work to do!

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

…the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

I don’t see that changing significantly. I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of new ideas that will complement that and help us improve in a lot of areas we need to improve in.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have – which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have – that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by...

Jesus–if Kilgore Trout could only write!” Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout’s unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and ‘be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…’ – Hannah More

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different...

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

Ideas are bulletproof

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Ideas do not need to be esoteric to be original or exciting.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Comments outnumber ideas.

It must be something voluntary, something self induced – like getting drunk, or talking yourself into believing some piece of foolishness because it happens to be in the Scriptures. And then look at their idea...

The power of an idea is never to be underestimated. Many a thought has survived long after its host has ceased to be. It is the power of an idea that no shield can defend...

If there are those who differ with the president on this, the president respects their opinion and respects their ideas and respects their thoughts. He listens. He listens carefully. In the end, the president will...

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they’re learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires – committed to looting and conquest – have done. So that’s American exceptionalism:...

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

There’s only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that’s a good one.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.

[M]rs. Miniver was beginning to feel more than a little weary of exchanging ideas (especially political ones) and of hearing other people exchange theirs. It’s all very well, she reflected, when the ideas have had...