Ideas Quotes

William o. douglas - the way to combat noxious ideas is with other...
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
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.
Helen Kelle
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
Spinoza - be not astonished at new ideas for it is well...
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sir barnett cocks (ca. 1907) - a committee is a cul - de - sac down which ideas...
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvie
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
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
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
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.
Anonymous
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
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
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.
Diane Ackerman
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
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
Robert Hutchins
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
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Mrs. Stowe
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
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
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
William Adams
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
Alfred Victor Vigny
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
We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding, Lord of The Flies
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
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these 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
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickove
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
Thomas Alva Edison
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
Elbert Hubbard
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
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
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
Karl Kraus
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