The Power of Ideas ...
"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
-- John Gardner"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
-- Arnold Edinborough“The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”
–Sigmund Freud“Nothing is a powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
--Victor Hugo, Les Miserables“A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.”
--Victor Hugo“Cogito ergo sum.”
(trans. “I think, therefore I am.”)
--Descartes“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
--Albert Einstein“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”
-- Albert Einstein"Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds"
- Albert Einstein“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.” –Albert Einstein
“There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
-- Oscar Levant“I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
–Voltaire“You never see anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some respect. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.”
--Picasso“We don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.”
–Thomas Edison“Who then is sane?”
--Horace“Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.” (trans. “There has not been any great talent without an element of madness.”)
–Seneca the Younger“What if imagination and ideas are not the icing at all, but the fountainhead of human existence?”
--Rollo May“I don’t believe in mathematics.”
–Einstein“Nothing worth learning can ever be taught.”
–Oscar Wilde"We are the music makers/ We are the dreamers of dreams.../ We are the movers and shakers/ of the world, forever, it seems."
--Arthur O'Shaughnessy“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
--Francis Bacon“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
--Francis Bacon“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
- -Plato