Ideas Quotes
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
It is useless to send armies against ideas.Georg Brandes
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
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
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.Diane Ackerman
You have to let people challenge your ideas.Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
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
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
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
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
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.Thomas Alva Edison
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
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
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.Richard Adams
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
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
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
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
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
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
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, 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
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.Bishop Vincent
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.George Santayana
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.Fyodor Dostoevsky
A committee is a cul - De - Sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.John Maynard Keynes
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
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
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Great ideas originate in the muscles.Thomas Alva Edison
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
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John Steinbeck
