Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: ideas
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.
Vladimir NabokovTags: philosophy thought ideas
An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.
IngridTags: power murder soul sanity mind heart ideas humans domination idea bullet world-sanity
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, maybe once in a hundred cases, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.
On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful as from the worthless ones.
Tags: openness balance ideas skepticism critical-thinking
Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to be.
Scott TraceyTags: books danger ideas library
Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.
Pai Kit FaiThe dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it."
[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011]
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
Dallas WillardTags: thinking ideals ideas idols
Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”
“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?
Tags: friends funny ideas artists compliments humorous odd-people wacky
Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.
Roman PayneTags: power strategy ideas alcohol wine idea roman-payne vin strategic champage stratagem
« first previous
Page 21 of 39.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.