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"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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"As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable."
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"We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim."
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"Then India, everyone has his own idea of India."
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"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
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"I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist."
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"It's never a good idea for a celebrity to sign autographs or take pictures if a crowd is gathering."
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"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
Creativity

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Creativity

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life

"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
Effort

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
Wisdom

"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
Responsibility

"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."
Thought

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
Time

"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
Idea
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