Ideas Quotes

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Alfred Victor Vigny

Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.

Rolfe Neill

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Dr. Linus Pauling

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

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

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 way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

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

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca, Epistles

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

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 policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Robert Hutchins

At least two - Thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Aldous Huxley

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

Alfred North Whitehead

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Steven Patrick Callahan

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Judge John Kane, US District Court

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calishe

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

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

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)

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

William Shakespeare

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

John Haldane

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

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal.

The National, Paris, 1850

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

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

Rmy de Gourmont

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second - Rate art of imitation.

Stephen Neill

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

We are prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas Alva Edison

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

Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003