388 quotes found
“Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networ...”
“Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.”
“I like to let ideas simmer in my brain until they're well done.”
“One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.”
“A key ingredient in appreciating what mathematics is about is to realize that it is concerned with ideas, understanding, and communication more than it is with any specific brand of symbols....It i...”
“Nothing that happens is meant to happen or not meant to happen. The meant is the story we tell ourselves that allows us to make sense of what is fundamentally senseless. Does this make our lives le...”
“Stories are one of the most powerful ways in which we communicate ideas among ourselves. They are the stuff that brings us together, the things we celebrate, the things we share with one another.”
“Theres a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into stories, into films, books, because they feel their lives ar...”
“As long as I have other ideas and projects noted, I feel confident that they'll be alright until I get to them. And my ideas and tastes may have evolved by the time I get to them so that an idea ca...”
“Libraries were full of ideasperhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then eac...”
“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if ...”
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
“Chance favors the connected mind.”
“There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.”
“For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.”
