Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.
Dare to think!
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
The best ideas are common property.