Ideas Quotes
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.Judge John Kane, US District Court
It is useless to send armies against ideas.Georg Brandes
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society.Robert Francis Kennedy
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.Mohandas Ghandi
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
You have to let people challenge your ideas.Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.George Santayana
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
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
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.Albert Einstein
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
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.Grant Wood
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.David H. Comins
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
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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
The greatest ideas are the simplest.William Golding, Lord of The Flies
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.William Lippmann
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
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
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
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
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.Theodore Harold White
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
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
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
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
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.Thomas Alva Edison
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.Hector Berlioz
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.Bishop Vincent
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.Hortense Calishe
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
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
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
To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.H. L. Mencken
