There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter.... That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters...


The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (ed. Penguin, 1988) - ISBN: 9781101137246

Ayn Rand Quotes

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the...

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the...

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the...

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the...