Culture Quote by Patricia Crone

“I am interested in the shape of ideas, even if I do not believe in them”

— Samuel Beckett

“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“My argument is only that the intensity of belief in an idea or the reach of its acceptance is no guarantee of its validity.…

— Bilahari P S Kausikan

“I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes,…

— Neil Gaiman

“We must guard against the tendency to believe every thought we generate.”

— Bill Harvey

Ideas are meaningless without action. Everyone has ideas. To succeed, make your ideas real. Make them happen.

— Anonymous

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

— William James

Every action is the result of an idea...

— Milana May

“Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them;”

— Richard Dawkins

“If it’s true that nothing is more potent than an idea, then those who control the media can direct minds en masse.”

— Lance Morcan

“Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come…

— David duChemin