Famous Ideas Quotes
And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Ideas shape the course of history.
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Focus is the difference between a good idea and a great accomplishment.
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.