Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.

In motivating people you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people I hope by example - and perhaps by excitement by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history someone's statement and ideas of life.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Ideas shape the course of history.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas a place where history comes to life.