“When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education” Has BeensIdeasMotherChristianityModernMotiveFacultySentimentsNew IdeasModern Education Book:Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics
“I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour” ThinkingHas BeensIdeasNextSuccessfulPeriodsOfficeFundamentalsGreenDemocraticCarefulInequalityReformLabourAgendasNew IdeasExtendingTackling Author:Peter Hain
“A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.” FirstsKindHas BeensImportantIdeasTurnsBeliefInterestConceptsGenuineInventionInsanityRealmsAssumptionReverseNew IdeasPriesthoodVested InterestsOld Ideas Author:Arthur Miller
“The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it:; once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.” KnowsLongHas BeensIdeasEvidenceProofHonestlyHardestLogicalNew IdeasFillingDemonstrationNicheSweepingWrong Ideas Author:Robert A. Heinlein