Ideas Quotes
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.C. D. Jackson
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.Hortense Calishe
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.George Santayana
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.Hector Berlioz
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, An Autobiography, 1977
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
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.John Maynard Keynes
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
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
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.Don Marquis
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.Geoffrey Parsons
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
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.William Shakespeare
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
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 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
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.Albert Einstein
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.George Santayana
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.Laurence Sterne
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
The greatest ideas are the simplest.William Golding, Lord of The Flies
Ideas control the world.James Abram Garfield
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
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
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
