To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Jean Piaget

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
Miguel de Unamuno

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
Dorothy Day

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
Jose Marti

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
Simon Travaglia

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
Jeffrey Sachs

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
Jeffrey Sachs

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
Bill Watterson

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Jules Renard

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
Agatha Christie

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
Bell Hooks

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.
David Foster Wallace

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
David Foster Wallace

I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison

I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
Bruce Springsteen

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.
Mortimer Adler