Ideas Quotes
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.Hector Berlioz
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
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
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.C. D. Jackson
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
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
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.Judge John Kane, US District Court
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.John Maynard Keynes
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.Karl Poppe
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
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.George Santayana
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.Karl Kraus
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.Diane Ackerman
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.William O. Douglas
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
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
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
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.Don Marquis
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.Anon.
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
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
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.Pearl Bailey
There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.Rmy de Gourmont
What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - Possessing them - That what has been said has still not been said enough.Eugene Delacroix
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.Hortense Calishe
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.Thomas Mann
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.Harold Abelson
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.Dwight D Eisenhowe
