388 quotes found
“I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.”
“And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution id...”
“The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.”
“Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.”
“For parlour use the vague generality is a lifesaver.”
“If anyone has a new idea in this country there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.”
“If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.”
“In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.”
“To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.”
“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your sl...”
“Great ideas are not charitable.”
“For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.”
“Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.”
“An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
“Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.”
“There is no adequate defence except stupidity against the impact of a new idea.”
“Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.”
“Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.”
“Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.”
“What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.”
