Ideas Quotes
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.John Maynard Keynes
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
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
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 history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
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
There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
It is useless to send armies against ideas.Georg Brandes
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.Bruce Lee
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
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
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.Hortense Calishe
Some have half - Baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.Author Unknown
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
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.Thomas Mann
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
Ideas control the world.James Abram Garfield
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.Don Marquis
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John Steinbeck
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
You have to let people challenge your ideas.Tom Kasten, VP, Levi Strauss and Co.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.Fran Lebowitz
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)
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
We are prisoners of ideas.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these 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
Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.Paul Graham, September 2004
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
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
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
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
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
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
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.Helen Kelle
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.Rmy de Gourmont
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
