Ideas Quotes
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 world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.Dwight D Eisenhowe
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.E. M. Cioran
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.Warren Bennis
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
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Mrs. Stowe
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.Wilfred Funk
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
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
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.Emile Chartie
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.Robert Hutchins
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.John Owen
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
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.Bruce Lee
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
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.Robert F. Goheen
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. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.F Scott
We are prisoners of ideas.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.David Ogilvie
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
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.Rmy de Gourmont
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
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)
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
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.Judge John Kane, US District Court
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.Chinese Prove
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.Hortense Calishe
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.Hyman Rickove
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
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas and the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John Steinbeck
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
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
