Quotes of: Idea Keyword

I have previously reduced the whole science of logic to two facts. The first is that our perceptions being every thing for us, we are perfectly, completely, and necessarily sure of whatever we actually feel. The second is that consequently none of o...

Treatise on Political Economy

Bouchalka was not a reflective person. He had his own idea of what a great prima donna should be like, and he took it for granted that Mme. Garnet corresponded to his conception. The curious thing was that he managed to impress his idea upon Cressida...

Youth and the Bright Medusa

But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already p...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Preston: I believe you'll find everything ship-shape, Admiral. Kirk: Oh, do you? Do you have any idea, Midshipman Preston, how many times I have had to listen to Mr. Scott on the comm, telling me his trouble? Do you have any idea of the ribbing I've ...

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest idea.' — Nikša Gligo (1972)

Conversing With Cage

You have no idea what it is," Ty said in a clipped voice. "You can't say it's going to be okay. You don't know.

City of Heavenly Fire

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

The Cheese Monkeys

Were it not for frustration and humiliation I suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.

Custard and Company: Poems

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

The Crack-Up

People who achieve big things are those who decide to try ideas that were previously rated and graded as impossibilities. “Impossibility” never exists!

Daily Drive 365

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

Doctor Who: Touched By An Angel

Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.

Demon Eyes

Estoy pasando por un cambio total de mi carácter. Odio la inestabilidad. Me asusta la idea de ver mi vida desorganizada.

Dear Enemy

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

The idea of saving anything was folly, a life especially. No life had been truly saved, not in the history of mankind. They were merely prolonged. Everything comes to an end.

Dust

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

Dans les forêts de Sibérie

we hear the most brilliant ideas and suggestions we failure comes our way

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

The secret idea she was forming of an afterlife gave her the foothold she needed to endure the agonies to come, a newfound courage and optimism which found instant expression through SHOPPING.

Dot in the Universe

One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

On the Edge

The idea was a splinter in my mind. Always there, always stinging,even when I wasn't conscious of it. Even when I wasn't thinking about it.

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective