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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ideas
We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things. ↗
None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then. ↗
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗
Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. ↗
There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas. ↗
Because the brain models our sense of self as just another instance of a thing, it is easy for us to project qualities that we only know of from our own minds into other objects. This allows us to imagine intelligence in a rock, a tree, an animal or even a politician. ↗
I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine. ↗