#ideas

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#determine #diminish #fears #ideas #make

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#church #depository #hospital #ideas #men

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#certain #experience #finally #fuller #greater

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#beside #class #contemplation #ideas #locke

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#ideas #idiots #know #later #nature

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#being #established #ever #few #ideas

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#first #free #ideas #men #minds

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#get #gift #ideas #out #people