Ideas Quotes
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.Reed Markham, Author, Effective Speechwriting
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)
Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
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
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.Alfred Victor Vigny
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
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
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.Alfred North Whitehead
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
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
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.William Lippmann
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John Steinbeck
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.Karl Poppe
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
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.David H. Comins
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.A. Whitney Griswold
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
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 policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.Robert Hutchins
The best ideas are common property.Seneca, Epistles
Some have half - Baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.Author Unknown
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.Diane Ackerman
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
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
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
