Ideas Quotes

Grant wood - all the really good ideas i ever had came to me...
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
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
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nathaniel brandon - reason and emotion are not antagonists. what...
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
E. M. Cioran
Samuel johnson - language is only the instrument of science, and...
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
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
Mary Beth Danielson
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
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
You have to let people challenge your ideas.
Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
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
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
Alfred Victor Vigny
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
Anon.
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.
Richard Adams
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
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
Bruce Lee
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Judge John Kane, US District Court
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
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe
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
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
Karl Kraus
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
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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 pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
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