#ideas

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook. ↗

— Charlie Trotter

#argue #cook #critically #how #ideas

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#change #conclusion #experimenting #ideas #logical

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#eyes #ideas #just #light #minds

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#embrace #go #hang #ideas #let go

Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match? ↗

— C.J. Cherryh

#science-fiction #tennis #writing #science

Jesus--if Kilgore Trout could only write!" Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#thought-experiments #writing-craft #experience

In my brain were stored a thousand pictures. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life-of-the-mind #thoughts #life

Love – Acceptance – Unity – Peace –Integrity – Respect… a strong, pure creed is short on words and long on nourishing ideas. For me, the longer the creed the more it has been diluted, manipulated, and spoiled. The results of this creed poisoning can be seen in the behavior of its followers. We have all heard the expression, “The devil is in the details”; my observations have led me to suspect this is true. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#creed #devil #god #ideas #integrity

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ideas #funny

The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #ideas #random #funny