Ideas Quotes - Page 35

• There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

  Andre Maurois

  Country, Giving, Desert

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• Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Roots

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• Step into this moment, because it is the only one you have right now. It is not wasted or thrown away. The divine opportunity could be stolen unless you tell yourself it is here right now; available to you this moment, to make of it anything you choose. Why not choose this moment, right now, to be available to yourself by declaring, I AM GOOD! . . . . The richness of the present is here. The fullness of now is present. If you are not here now, it means you could be missing the love, joy, peace and brand-new ideas that are here right now.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Opportunity, Joy

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• We are all dangling in mid-process between what already happened (which is just a memory) and what might happen (which is just an idea). Now is the only time anything happens. When we are awake in our lives, we know what's happening. When we're asleep, we don't see what's right in front of us.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Memories, Might, Process

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.87, Ballantine Books

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• If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Mathematics, Prove It, Stills

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• Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing, and it is artificial, but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization.

  Herbert Wilf

  Science, Civilization, Guilty

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• Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.

  Russell Shorto

  Healing, Doctors, Broken

  Russell Shorto (2008). “Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason”, p.13, Vintage

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• ...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Bored, Kind, Illness

  Jeremy Clarkson (2004). “The world according to Clarkson”

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• You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.

  Mary Matalin

  Regret, Writing, Letters

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• I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

  Ian Wilmut

  Engineering, Would Be, Generations

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• Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

  Lynne Cheney

  Children, Discovery, Taught

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• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Airplane, Men, Discovery

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• We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Discovery, Epiphany

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 5: Ethics: 1908”, p.268, SIU Press

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• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

  Andre Weil

  Past, Discovery, Issues

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• No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one to whom it is told another fact, not an idea. The communication may stimulate the other person to realize the question for himself and to think out a like idea, or it may smother his intellectual interest and suppress his dawning effort at thought. But what he directly gets cannot be an idea. Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Wrestling, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.166, SIU Press

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• We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.

  Sterling W Sill

  Thinking, Mind, Human Experience

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• After the Volcker Fund collapsed, I got another grant from the Lilly Endowment to do a history of the U.S., which I worked on from 1962-66. The original idea was to take the regular facts and put a libertarian assessment on everything.

  Murray Rothbard

  Assessment, Libertarian, Facts

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• What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

  Jason Mraz

  Kids, Citizens, World

  "Singer Jason Mraz's mission in Africa". Interview with Anna Shcherbakova, www.cnn.com. June 28, 2010.

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• I really want to get into designing my own business suit. I've designed a couple suits for myself that I've worn in the past, and I have a good idea of what I want and need to use.

  Ryan Lochte

  Couple, Past, Design

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• I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

  Phil Donahue

  Thinking, Creating, News

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• No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
  their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Intelligent, Agreement, Violence

  "Reply to a Peasant's Question". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 36, (p. 501), www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

  Gioconda Belli

  Crazy, People, Gone

  "Daughter of the revolution" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2002.

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

  Dick Morris

  Mind, Ambitious, Use

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• Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.

  Graeme Goldsworthy

  Spiritual, Mean, Responsibility

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• Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

  Heinrich Heine

  Christianity, Immortal, Indestructible

  Heinrich Heine (1985). “The Romantic School and Other Essays: Heinrich Heine”, p.130, A&C Black

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