Ideas Quotes
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.John Maynard Keynes
There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
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
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
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 F. Kennedy
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
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
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
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 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
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.Henry Louis Mencken
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.Don Marquis
Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.Bern Williams
Ideas shape the course of history.John Maynard Keynes
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.Anonymous
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, An Autobiography, 1977
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
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
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
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
Some have half - Baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.Author Unknown
Mathematics is a vast adventure in ideas; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.Dirk Struik, A Concise History of Mathematics, vol. I
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.Tommy Smothers
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.Stanislaus J. Lec
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
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.J. Arthur Thomson
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.Anon.
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
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.William Lippmann
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.Dr. Linus Pauling
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
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
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.Diane Ackerman
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
Great ideas originate in the muscles.Thomas Alva Edison
