Ideas Quotes
We are prisoners of ideas.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.Karl Kraus
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.Thomas Alva Edison
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.Bishop Vincent
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.Pablo Picasso
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.Bruce Lee
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.Marquis de Sade
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.Ronald Reagan
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.Grant Wood
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.Alexander Osborn
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.Spinoza
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.Mohandas Ghandi
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.Theodore Harold White
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.Matthew Arnold
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.Chinese Prove
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.Samuel P. Huntington
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.Richard Adams
You have to let people challenge your ideas.Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.Francis A. Carte
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.Sextus Julius Frontinus
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
