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Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map.
Alan Mooreborn 1953“What Is Reality?” (written for television)
- Ideas
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
Vladimir Nabokov1899–1977Strong Opinions (1973), Foreword
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Ideas
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940 (1942), p. 94
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Dawn of Day (1881), § 297
- Youth
Only thoughts reached by walking have value.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Twilight of the Idols (1889), “Maxims and Arrows,” § 1.34
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Gay Science (1882), Sec. 179
- Emotion
He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Human, All Too Human (1878), Aphorism 579, tr. R. J. Hollingdale
- Politics
Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
Barack Obamaborn 1961A New Beginning (June 2009)
- Freedom
- Ideas
Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough. No matter how right, they must be chiseled into law and institutions.
Barack Obamaborn 1961Eulogy of Nelson Mandela (December 2013)
- Ideas
- Laws
It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence.
George Orwell1903–1950Letter to Richard Rees (3 March 1949), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol. 4: In front of your nose, 1945-1950 (1968), ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, p. 478
- Intelligence
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.
George Orwell1903–1950“The Freedom of the Press”, unused preface to Animal Farm (1945), published in Times Literary Supplement (15 September 1972)
- Ideas
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell1903–1950Review of A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read, Poetry Quarterly (Winter 1945)
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine1737–1809