Quotes on Brilliant Ideas

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.