Carl Sagan Quotes, Hands Quotes, Ideas Quotes

What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.

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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

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To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

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It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

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I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

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The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

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Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

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In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.

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It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

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Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.

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My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

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