#ideas

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#amendment #amendment rights #beliefs #believe #censorship

...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#ideas #words #dreams

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#arranging #because #different #different animal #documentary

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. ↗

— George Santayana

#difficulty #experience #get #great #ideas

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. ↗

— George Santayana

#believe #between #dualism #facts #general

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas! ↗

— Adam Savage

#good #good ideas #how #i #ideas

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated. ↗

— Adam Savage

#boards #crew #discovery #going #ideas

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#ideas #infinite #lively #original #thoughts

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#idea #ideas #isolated #no idea #only