Ideas Quotes

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Thomas Alva Edison

Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.

Rolfe Neill

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Dr. Linus Pauling

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs. Stowe

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

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

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

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

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

George Santayana

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Francis A. Carte

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

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

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

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

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

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Brandon

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

Author Unknown

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

Anonymous

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Bill Bernbach

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

Klemens Von Metternich

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca, Epistles

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

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

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)

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

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

Karl Poppe

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

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

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

Midge Decto

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Napoleon Hill

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Elbert Hubbard

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

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.

Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

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

The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.

Carl Lotus Becke