Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Benjamin

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

Walter Benjamin

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Alan Cohen

When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live. When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

Albert Einstein

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size

Albert Einstein

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Albert Einstein

If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.

Albert Einstein

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

Albert Einstein

It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification

Albert Einstein

Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

Albert Einstein

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Schnittke

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

Alfred Nobel

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Alfred Nobel

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Alfred North Whitehead

The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

Alfred North Whitehead

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

Alfred North Whitehead

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

Alfred North Whitehead

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas' - that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Alex Ferguson

They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

Alex Ferguson

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Alec Baldwin

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems.

Aldous Huxley

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Aldous Huxley

The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that the magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Aldous Huxley

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Albert Einstein

Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.

Albert Einstein

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

Albert Einstein

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.