Quotes about ideas
115 quotes from 89 people
Aesop620–564 BCAesop’s Fables (6th century BC), The Kites and the Swans – The Monkey and the DolphinIn contextIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
To us he is no more a person
Now but a whole climate of opinion.
W. H. Auden1907–1973“In Memory of Sigmund Freud”, Another Time (1940)
Lauren Bacall1924–2014Lauren Bacall By Myself and Then Some (2005)
Alexander Graham Bell1847–1922Bell Telephone Talk (1901)
Saul Bellow1915–2005Henderson the Rain King (1959) [Viking/Penguin, 1984, ], ch. XVIII, p. 271
Niels Bohr1885–1962Said to Wolfgang Pauli after his presentation of Heisenberg’s and Pauli’s nonlinear field theory of elementary particles, at Columbia University (1958), as reported by F. J. Dyson in his paper “Innovation in Physics” (Scientific American, 199, No. 3- Niels Bohr1885–1962Said to Wolfgang Pauli at Columbia University (1958), as reported by Freeman Dyson, ‘Innovation in Physics’, Scientific American (September 1958)
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“Avatars of the Tortoise” (1939), collected in Discussion (1957 edition)
Charles F. Brannan1903–1992Often credited to George Bernard ShawOriginality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Richter.Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!
