Ideas Quote by Carol S. Dweck

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than…

— A. N. Wilson

I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers…

— Oliver D. Crisp

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they…

— Jacob Bronowski

Money is attracted to great ideas.

— Robert G. Allen

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

— Charles Kettering

I feel a huge gratification out of being right. To see my projects connect in a way in which the audience is passionate is…

— Curtis Jackson

“The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they will flee…

— Franz Rosenthal

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

— Isaiah Berlin

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson