Ideas Quotes
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.Miriam Beard
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.George Santayana
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.Klemens Von Metternich
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.Eric Bentley
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.William Shakespeare
At least two - Thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.Aldous Huxley
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
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
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.Hector Berlioz
It is useless to send armies against ideas.Georg Brandes
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.Mary Manin Boggs
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.John Haldane
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.Bruce Lee
Our 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.Walt Disney
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.Karl Kraus
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.Robert Hutchins
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
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 F. Kennedy
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.Karl Poppe
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
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
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.Thomas Mann
The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.Julie Arabi
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
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.William Adams
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.Nathaniel Brandon
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
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
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.Bishop Vincent
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
