#idea

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#ever #fire #ideas #mind #remain

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#before #believe #civilization #embodiment #established

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#based #consent #democracy #derives #fathers

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

#fundamental #ideas #progress

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#any #being #better #bit #comes

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#drive #humor #ideal #reader #subjective

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#class #connection #deep #educated #ideas

This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#great #ideas #rather #than #thinking

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas. ↗

— Jean-Louis Trintignant

#actually #come #ideas #many #too

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#bulimia #combination #exercise #feminine #ideal