Ideas Quotes
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
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.Hortense Calishe
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.Marquis de Sade
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
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
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
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
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
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
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
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
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.Klemens Von Metternich
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
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
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.Alfred North Whitehead
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
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
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
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
The best ideas are common property.Seneca, Epistles
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 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
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.Hector Berlioz
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
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
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
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.Karl Kraus
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.William O. Douglas
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.Grant Wood
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
