Ideas Quotes

Mary manin boggs - my ideas are a curse. they spring from a radical...
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.
Mohandas Ghandi
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
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
Don marquis - ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the...
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
William golding, lord of the flies - the greatest ideas are the simplest....
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Elbert Hubbard
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
Bern Williams
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
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
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
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
Grant Wood
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
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 man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese Prove
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
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
William Lippmann
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Alva Edison
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
George Santayana
Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
Matthew Arnold
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
Robert Hutchins
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
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvie
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Carl Lotus Becke
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.
Wilfred Funk
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
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
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
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 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
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
You have to let people challenge your ideas.
Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.