Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Carroll

Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?

Lewis Carroll

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

Joseph Campbell

If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.

Joseph Campbell

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

Joseph Campbell

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

Karl Pilkington

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Some speak of the public as if it were someone with whom they have had dinner at the Leipzig Fair in the Hotel de Saxe. Who is this public? The public is not a thing, but rather an idea, a postulate, like the Church.

Karl Popper

What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Karl Popper

It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that have been spent on big machines. What really makes science grow is new ideas, including false ideas.

Karl Popper

The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.

Karl Popper

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others - not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others

Juliette Lewis

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

Juliette Binoche

I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.

Juliette Binoche

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

Joseph Needham

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph Priestley

Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.

Joseph Murphy

Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it begins to execute it.

Joseph Goebbels

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Julian Schnabel

I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.

Juliana Hatfield

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Jules Renard

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Joshua Jackson

Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far out there.

Karl Barth

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

Justin Sane

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

Judith Rodin

Without impact, innovation is just an idea with promise.

Judy Blume

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Judy Blume

Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.

Josh Lucas

It's the South that maintains the idea that they're different, which is interesting because nobody else really cares

Joseph Conrad

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.