Quotes Tagged "ideas"

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. [Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

All things remarkable are surprisingly simple; albeit difficult to find.

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys, plains, That there are trees, flowers, weeds, That there are rivers and stones, But there is not a whole these belong to, That a real and true wholeness Is a sickness of our ideas.

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

You are the spirit and the ideas you put out.

Knowledge is having a wide range of past history, whereas wisdom is being able to apply history to the present and the future.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum durch Blau und Wolkenflucht. Wie Blüten geh'n Gedanken auf hundert an jedem Tag -- lass' blühen, lass' dem Ding den Lauf frag' nicht nach dem Ertrag! Es muss auch Spiel und Unschuld sein und Blütenüberfluss sonst wär' die Welt uns viel zu klein und Leben kein Genuss.

Brainpower is our inner genius that craves to radiate creativity, positivity, hope, and ideas for the greater good of our real self and the world.

Almost everybody needs ideas to live by including hope and faith in order to tolerate the hardships of existence.