Ideas Quotes

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte

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 most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Rmy de Gourmont