Oscar Wilde Quotes, Ideas Quotes

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

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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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The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.

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I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

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I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

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

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How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

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I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

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The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

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