Ideas Quotes
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
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
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.Dr. Linus Pauling
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.Theodore Harold White
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
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
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
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
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
There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
We are prisoners of ideas.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
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
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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)
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.Samuel P. Huntington
The greatest ideas are the simplest.William Golding, Lord of The Flies
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 public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.Judge John Kane, US District Court
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.Anon.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.Alfred Bernhard Nobel
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.Don Marquis
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.Rmy de Gourmont
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.Chinese Prove
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
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
