388 quotes found
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
“Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate ...”
“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears...”
“The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.”
“Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.”
“This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. Its not that the network itself is smart; its that the individuals get smarter because theyre connected to the network.”
“True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.”
“If you have an idea, execute it today itself,Else you may wake up tomorrow and find that someone else has already executed the idea,After all you not alone who is thinking.”
“A good idea always attracts other good ideas.”
“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but comple...”
“The natural laws of life is not an idea but the truth that holds life on existence. Once you realize the truth within, all your problems and queries of life, cease to exist.”
“An unsolved problem bothers one's mind, just as a small stone in the shoe,until an idea for solving the problem comes to mind.”
“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”
“There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it, no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.”
“Those who think, Present.”
“I read anything thats going to be interesting. But you dont know what it is until youve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth therell be the making of a novel.”
“But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.")”
“It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.”
