Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Men Quotes, Ideas Quotes

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

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If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate

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Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

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Our ideology is intolerant...and peremptorily demands...the complete transformation of public life to its ideas.

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For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

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The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.

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But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

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Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!

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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

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My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

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Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.

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