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Ideas14 quotes
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx · 1848The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960The best ideas are common property. — Seneca · 65No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious and the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you. — Cobb · 2010The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1936All 14 quotes →Power of ideas3 quotes
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious and the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you. — Cobb · 2010Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1831Creativity2 quotes
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. — John Steinbeck · 1947Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967History of ideas2 quotes
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx · 1848No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. — Ellen Glasgow · 1936Intellectual property2 quotes
The best ideas are common property. — Seneca · 65Information almost wants to be free. — Stewart Brand · 1984Intelligence2 quotes
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1936A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. — Nicolas Chamfort · 1796Changing the world1 quote
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989Class conflict1 quote
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx · 1848Contradiction1 quote
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1936Genius and insanity1 quote
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967Heresy1 quote
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — T.H. Huxley · 1880Information1 quote
Information almost wants to be free. — Stewart Brand · 1984Innovation1 quote
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967Insanity1 quote
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R.D. Laing · 1967Personal growth1 quote
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1831Ruling class1 quote
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx · 1848Superstition1 quote
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — T.H. Huxley · 1880Truth1 quote
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. — T.H. Huxley · 1880Words1 quote
No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. — John Keating · 1989