Exchanging Ideas Quotes

• Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

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  Walt Disney

  Children   Learning   Ideas  

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• Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

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  Mary McCarthy

  Friendship   Believe   Growth Hormones  

  3570

• Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.

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  Shel Silverstein

  Reading   Journey   Years  

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• If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.

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  Ludwik Fleck

  Ideas   Community   Historical  

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.39, University of Chicago Press

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• Our youth must always be free, discussing and exchanging ideas concerned with what is happening throughout the entire world.

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  Che Guevara

  Ideas   World   Youth  

  "On Revolutionary Medicine". Speech delivered to the Cuban Militia, www.marxists.org. August 19, 1960.

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• Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

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  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Country   War   Successful  

  1564

• Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

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  Ben Macintyre

  Falling In Love   Educational   Reading  

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