Ideas Quotes
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.Grant Wood
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.Eleanor Roosevelt
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.Bishop Vincent
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
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.Alfred North Whitehead
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.George Santayana
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
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.Midge Decto
The greatest ideas are the simplest.William Golding, Lord of The Flies
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.Karl Poppe
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
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.Fyodor Dostoevsky
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.Elbert Hubbard
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
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.Alfred Victor Vigny
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.Laurence Sterne
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.Linus Pauling
A committee is a cul - De - Sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.Sir Barnett Cocks (ca. 1907)
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
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The best ideas are common property.Seneca, Epistles
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.David H. Comins
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.John Maynard Keynes
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
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
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
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
The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 1963
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
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.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
