Ideas Quotes

Judge john kane, us district court - the public interest is best served by the free...
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca, Epistles
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken
E. m. cioran - the history of ideas is the history of the...
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
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)
Ideas control the world.
James Abram Garfield
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
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.
Thomas Alva Edison
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
Bill Bernbach
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
Alfred Victor Vigny
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
Charles Fillmore
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 wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calishe
I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.
Marquis de Sade
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.
Diane Ackerman
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
Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.
Rolfe Neill
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
Thomas Mann
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
A committee is a cul - De - Sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.
George Crane
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.
Midge Decto
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
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartie
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.
Alexander Osborn
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding, Lord of The Flies
We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson