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Ideas Quotes by Wilfred Trotter
- If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate…
- The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their…
- 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…
- If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely…
- It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to…
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- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe