I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with th….

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious..

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you..

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted..

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making….

I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Sciento….

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice..

I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a ….

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life..

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out..

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him..

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea..

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be….

If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out….

When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so ….

..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direct….

This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right now..

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up..

We have been trying to point out that this concept of an indefinitely favorable future is dangerous, even if it is true; because even if it is true y….

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different wa….