But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to those of Jesus.
Ideas Quotes
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and the improvement of his conditions, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like […]
The only big ideas I’ve ever had have come from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day your mind is being occupied, controlled, by someone else – at school, at work, watching television. Getting away from all that is really important. You need to just kick back in a […]
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
I wish there were some cure, like the lover’s leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere. You even smell it.
If it is unlawful to urge that an idea be carried out, is it also unlawful to state it academically and point out its possible merits?
As any action or posture long continued will distort and disfigure the limbs; so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
Let one thousand flowers bloom.
The proof of an idea is not to be sought in the soundness of the man fathering it, but in the soundness of the idea itself. One asks of a pudding, not if the cook who offers it is a good woman, but if the pudding itself is good.
