Idea Quotes

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility.

You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.

I have no idea what my teacher’s intentions were – whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.

When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

So that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability of the Earth (as we shall discuss more fully elsewhere).