Ideas Quotes
Some have half - Baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.Author Unknown
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
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.Tom McMakin, CEO, Great Harvest
We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.Karl Poppe
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
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
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
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
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
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.Pearl Bailey
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.Charles Fillmore
There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
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 real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.Bill Bernbach
There are well - Dressed foolish ideas just as there are well - Dressed fools.Diane Ackerman
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.C. D. Jackson
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal.Richard Adams
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
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
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
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
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.Henry Ward Beeche
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.George Santayana
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal.The National, Paris, 1850
Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas.Rolfe Neill
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
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.Author Unknown
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
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.Alfred Victor Vigny
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
Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.George Crane
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.John Maynard Keynes
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.Unknown
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
