It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Suppressing ideas does not eliminate them; neglecting them is what truly stifles innovation.
Ursula K. Le Guin's quote emphasizes that actively ignoring ideas leads to their demise, rather than overt suppression. This highlights the importance of mental engagement and openness to change, suggesting that a refusal to entertain new thoughts ultimately stifles creativity and progress.
Themes
IdeasChangeSuppressingThinkingInnovation
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion on creative thinking, one might say, 'As Ursula K. Le Guin noted, you can’t crush ideas by suppressing them.'
More from Ursula K. Le Guin
All quotes →In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Similar quotes
I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.
Umberto EcoRead
Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas CarlyleRead
Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.
Thomas SowellRead
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace WalpoleRead
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah ArendtRead
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
Thomas JeffersonRead