Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

Baruch Spinoza

The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

Baruch Spinoza

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.

Augustine Birrell

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

Auguste Comte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Arthur Miller

A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

Arthur Miller

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

Diane Johnson

The Novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of some other fool and reserves the right to disavow them.

Diane Keaton

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Dennis Weaver

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

Dennis Quaid

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

Dennis Prager

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

Dennis Prager

To call yourself a socialist in 2015 is to be an idiot. Socialism fails. Everywhere.

Dennis Prager

The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind

Dennis Prager

I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one

Dennis Prager

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Dennis Crowley

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

Dennis Crowley

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

Dennis Crowley

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Denis Diderot

My ideas are my whores.

Deborah Tannen

But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

Dee Dee Myers

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Dee Dee Myers

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

Dean Ornish

Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

Dean Kamen

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

Edgar Allan Poe

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

Elbert Hubbard

Action is thought tempered by illusion.

Elbert Hubbard

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Elbert Hubbard

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.

Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.