“ Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 3K
“ Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ”
- Stephen Jay Gould- Copy
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“ A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets — we remember only. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. ”
- Uta Hagen- Copy
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“ Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem. ”
- Robert Schuller- Copy
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“ I have always fought for ideas — until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ”
- Margaret Anderson- Copy
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“ There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy. ”
- Jessica Lynch- Copy
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“ For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
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“ Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. ”
- Jean Piaget- Copy
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“ Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
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“ The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated. ”
- Kenneth Burke- Copy
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“ The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
- 981
“ Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
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