Ideas Quote by Chris Anderson

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

— J. M. Coetzee

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,

— James Geary

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can,…

— James Meade

“People understand ideas when ideas relate to something they already know.”

— Brian Knapp

“Knowledge and cleverness tend to concern themselves with the wrong sorts of things, and a mind confused by knowledge, cleverness and abstract ideas tends…

— Benjamin Hoff

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

— Dana Gioia

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

— Plato

“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know we know.”

— William S. Burroughs

“Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they…

— Chandler Burr

“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are…

— Jonah Lehrer

“If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus…

— Kenneth J.W. Craik