ideas

The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

Nobody before the Pythagoreans had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

Ideas are precious. An idea is the only lever which moves the world.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.