Ideas Quotes

Mary beth danielson - if growing up is the process of creating ideas...
A committee is a cul - De - Sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Bill Bernbach
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers
George eliot - i think i should have no other mortal wants, if i...
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz
Carl lotus becke - generally speaking, men are influenced by books...
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
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Judge John Kane, US District Court
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
William Adams
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
Anon.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Dr. Linus Pauling
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
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey
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
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
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
Klemens Von Metternich
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
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these 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
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.
Albert E. Cliffe
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
Voltaire
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
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Alva Edison
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
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.
Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Georg Brandes
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.
Sidney Madwed
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
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
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickove
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