"Ideas are the source of all things..." - Quote by Plato

“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.”

“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”

“You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?”

“I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.”

“Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.”

“The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.”

“Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.”

“All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.”

“Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.”