Ideals and visions need parents to give them birth and nourish them until they can live their own life - Robert Muller
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones - John Cage
I can?t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I?m frightened of the old ones - John Cage
History is not written by events but by ideas. Personal as well as collective actions are always preceded by a vision, an idea. For our present epoch we must first and foremost get our vision straight and have many ideas - Robert Muller
He saw little value in ideas unless they were tethered to human improvement (said of John Stuart Mill) -http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7439
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine - Fran Lebowitz
Four hundred years ago, Galileo challenged the doctrine of the announced idea. On seeing the heavens through his telescope, he discovered that Copernicus was right!. The earth was not the center of the Universe, but merely one part of a greater whole. A respected part, but no more than a part - Studs Terkel, "Talking to Myself", pg. 336
For ideas to be born, a midwife is needed - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p34
Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference - Nolan Bushnell (founder, Atari)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg