ideas

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

If anyone has a new idea in this country there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

There is no adequate defence except stupidity against the impact of a new idea.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

Great ideas are not charitable.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

I read anything that__ going to be interesting. But you don__ know what it is until you__e read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there__l be the making of a novel.

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.")

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.