S Ideas Quotes

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.

The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.

There are a lot of ideas I've had that I originally was quite taken with, but over time, I lost steam. They stay on my list, but between me and you, I'm probably never going to do them.

When I write, I love finding connections between ideas. When the connections are plentiful and strong, then I know it's a pretty good subject to write about.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.

We [United States] are the only military superpower. We have no idea how long this is going to last, so we ought to get every bad guy we can and fix every problem we can.

Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have applied the same strategy even had he not been aware of them.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.

Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans want to hear about but also ideas.

I like walking into the studio everyday and having completely custom, diverse artwork to do. And my clients keep the interesting ideas flowing in.

Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.

I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.

I don't like the idea of drama schools. They only perpetuate the myth that everyone can do what I do