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“We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these…

— Stephen McAndrew

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

— Barack Obama

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

— Brenda Ueland

The ideas dictate everything.

— David Lynch

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

— Robin Hobb

Truth happens to an idea

— William James

“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion”

— Patricia Crone

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own

— Cullen Hightower

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

— William James

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

— David Lynch

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately…

— Baruch Spinoza

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

— William James