Quotes with ideas

Quotes 141 till 160 of 361.

  • Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Alfred Nobel If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Hubert Humphrey If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bill Wyman If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Carl Sagan If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 391
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Adam Grant If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Carine Roitfeld In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Carlo Rubbia In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Carine Roitfeld In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Alfred Whitney Griswold In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
    Alfred Whitney Griswold
    American historian and educator (1906 - 1963)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Heinrich Heine In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Arthur Erickson Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Mann It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • John Maynard Keynes It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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