Dead Ideas Quotes

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.

The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die.

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.