“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.”

“All told it is a new world. It calls for new ideas. In Canada it calls for a New Party.”

“Nothing is more stimulating for self-education than working in a new area.”

“That’s how ideas are generated. Unusual combinations, mixing old and new, stimulate original ideas, that is, ideas with origins.”

“Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage”

“Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?”

“At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.”

“The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”

“You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.”

“All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may call Senses … Reasoning or Intellect seems to raise no new Species of Ideas, but to discover or discern the Relations of those received.”