Ideas Quotes
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)
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
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
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
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 teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.Francis A. Carte
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
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.Pablo Picasso
A committee is a cul - De - Sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
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
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.Mohandas Ghandi
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.Laurence Sterne
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.Diane Ackerman
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
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 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
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.Alfred North Whitehead
The best ideas are common property.Seneca, Epistles
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.Mary Manin Boggs
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.Reed Markham, Author, Effective Speechwriting
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
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
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
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.William Lippmann
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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 Fitzgerald
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
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
There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.Chinese Prove
When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - Say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - It is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.Paul Graham, September 2004
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
