Ideas Quotes

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Marie Curie

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

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

George Santayana

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

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

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

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

There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.

Diane Ackerman

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

J. William Galbraith

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

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

Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003

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

Judge John Kane, US District Court

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Thomas Mann

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

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963

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

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

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

Steven Patrick Callahan

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

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

H. L. Mencken

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie

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

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.

Richard Adams

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

Karl Poppe

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

J. Arthur Thomson

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Midge Decto

Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.

Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest

We are prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

William Adams

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt