ideas

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

The best ideas start as conversations.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.