ideas Quotes

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.