Ideas Quotes · Page 266

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant

Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

— Anne McLellan

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

— A. J. McLean

That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet,

— LeBron James

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

— Anton Zeilinger

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

— Tim Blixseth

There's a lot of preconceived ideas of what disability is, what a disabled person should be like, and I try to throw…

— Josh Blue

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

— George MacDonald

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and,…

— Carol Burnett

Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little…

— George Saunders

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea…

— Janeane Garofalo

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer…

— Dasha Zhukova

I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When I first heard the term 'training bra,' I was freaked out. I was pretty young and I said, 'Did you just…

— Demetri Martin

Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than…

— P.W. Catanese

“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with…

— Luther Burbank

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that…

— Haruki Murakami

There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack…

— Nicholson Baker

Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of…

— Gail Carriger

The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the…

— Saul Williams

I really like Howler and an American band on Sub Pop called Jaill. There will always be new bands that I like,…

— Johnny Marr

To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that…

— Michael Dell

“Ideas represent a wonderful manifestation of the functioning of the human mind.”

— Eraldo Banovac

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

— Philippe Starck

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

— Moby

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a…

— Mark Twain

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

— Thierry Henry

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

— Douglas Engelbart

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

— Adam Gopnik

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

— Stephen Starr

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

— Kathleen Norris

Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

— Karl Lagerfeld

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

— Michael R. Burch

I had one idea that never changed in my mind—that you should use your wealth to help people.

— Chuck Feeney

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner