Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap… — Steve Grand Copy Share Image
The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George Copy Share Image
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
For a struggling filmmaker running low on ideas, public domain is all we have for adapting books. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As a musician or a performer, you're meant to know what you're about, but it's ridiculous that someone 14 would have any… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If people are anything but enthusiastic about the information or ideas that they're sharing, they're either not that invested in what they're… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
People can't bear the idea that I could be sexual and provocative, and still be a nice person with a nice family… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this,… — Olivia de Havilland Copy Share Image
People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they're tearing up a city, and there's a portal… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can… — Sara Blakely Copy Share Image
I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea… — Richard John Neuhaus Copy Share Image
Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries,… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
The people who are horrified by the idea of children learning what they want to learn when they want to learn it… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of… — John Searle Copy Share Image
This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion of activity… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. — Richard Henry Pratt Copy Share Image
You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet. — Kevin Harrington Copy Share Image
One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes… — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
To have no ideas and being able to express them is the essence of journalism. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.” — Malia Ann Haberman Copy Share Image
The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I really had no idea when I pitched the series that it would lead to so much fun and so much connecting… — Jeff Probst Copy Share Image
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be. — Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Copy Share Image
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
