An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere peru...
[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves a...
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painti...
Don Miguel Rojo: That's the right idea? You didn't misunderstand? Joe: I get the wrong idea only when it suits me. Ramon Rojo: You are well informed, eh? Joe: A man's life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information. Your brother's ow...
Michael Bolton: You think the pet rock was a really great idea? Tom Smykowski: Sure it was. The guy made a million dollars. You know, I had an idea like that once. A long time ago. Peter Gibbons: Really, what was it, Tom? Tom Smykowski: Well, all rig...
Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and...
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
My ideas aren't afraid of height.
What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
In a country of consciousness, ideas are its' citizens.
The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.
The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.
Most of my ideas just come out funny.
