“Mr. President, I am not undertaking to answer the charge that I am ignorant. It is true. I am an ignorant man. I have had no college education. I have not even had a high school education. But the things that takes me far in politics is that I do not have to color what comes into my mind and into my…”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“The trouble is, Roosevelt hasn't taken all of my ideas; just part of them. I'm about one hundred yards ahead of him. We're on the same road, but I'm here and he's there.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”— Wayne Dyer, goodreads.com
“A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.”— Ella Fitzgerald, ellafitzgerald.com
“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“I just want to think deeply about things. Contemplate ideas in a pure, free sort of way. That’s all.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.”— Will Wright, edition.cnn.com
“These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.”— Elvis Costello, elviscostello.info
“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”— Julio Cortazar, amazon.com
“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”— Jean Piaget, jeanpiaget.org
“There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years; there’s someth…”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“I am inclined to satisfy the claims of my own ideals rather than the expectations of others.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, you…”— William Goldman, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we’re only what we’ve done and what we are going to do.”— Jodi Lynn Anderson, amazon.com