Ideas Quotes
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
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
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
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
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.Robert Hutchins
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.Dr. Linus Pauling
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
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
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.Richard Adams
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.Karl Kraus
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
Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.Alfred North Whitehead
Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.Eric Bentley
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.C. D. Jackson
God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.Pablo Picasso
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
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.Bishop Vincent
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non - Westerners never do.Samuel P. Huntington
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
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
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.Dwight D Eisenhowe
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.Mary Manin Boggs
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.Karl Poppe
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 the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.Grant Wood
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.Edward De Bono
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.Laurence Sterne
We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.Albert E. Cliffe
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
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
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
