Ideas Quotes

Bruce lee - ideas are the beginning of all achievement....
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Anonymous
Spinoza - be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well...
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
Anon.
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Carl Lotus Becke
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - The best remedy against it is to tread on it.
S? ren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.
Paul Graham, September 2004
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
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.
Stephen Neill
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
William Lippmann
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Helen Kelle
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding, Lord of The Flies
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.
H. L. Mencken
We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Charles Fillmore
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead
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
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Elbert Hubbard
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
Karl Kraus
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
Alfred Victor Vigny
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
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Georg Brandes
Some have half - Baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
Author Unknown
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Alva Edison
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickove
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.
Geoffrey Parsons
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.
Henry Louis Mencken
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
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
Grant Wood
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish