Quotes on “ideas”

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.