Ideas Quotes
We are prisoners of ideas.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.Henry Besseme
The greatest ideas are the simplest.William Golding, Lord of The Flies
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.Thomas Alva Edison
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
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
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
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.Napoleon Hill
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
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.Robert Hutchins
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal.The National, Paris, 1850
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
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.Fyodor Dostoevsky
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.George Santayana
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
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
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.Edward De Bono
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
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
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 ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.John Maynard Keynes
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.C. D. Jackson
It is useless to send armies against ideas.Georg Brandes
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, An Autobiography, 1977
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
Some have half - Baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.Author Unknown
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.J. William Galbraith
