Ideas Quotes

Abraham lincoln - he can compress the most words into the smallest...
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
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
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
Aldous huxley - at least two - thirds of our miseries spring from...
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
Georg brandes - it is useless to send armies against ideas....
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
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Alva Edison
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.
Karl Poppe
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
Thomas Mann
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
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
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
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
William Lippmann
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas
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
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
The test of a first - Fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in 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 Fitzgerald
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
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
George Santayana
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca, Epistles
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
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
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
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Judge John Kane, US District Court
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.
Diane Ackerman
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartie
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
Klemens Von Metternich
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