Quotes on New Ideas

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.