Compass Quote by David Berman

“One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have…

— A.A. Milne

The ideas dictate everything.

— David Lynch

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

— Roy H. Williams

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each…

— Midge Decter

For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it…

— Robert Hooke

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

— Meret Oppenheim

“The problem with ideas is that they never come all at once. They emerge like prairie dogs. An edge of ear, or the tip…

— Maggie Stiefvater

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

— Baruch Spinoza

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

— Pablo Picasso

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that…

— Alan Moore

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of;…

— Russell Hoban