Ideas

Quote link. Other quotes about: old people understand Other quotes by John Cage.: "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason purpose plans Other quotes by Steven Patrick Callahan.: "Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate love Other quotes by Emile Chartier.: "There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find think life person Other quotes by Agatha Christie.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work god day never Other quotes by Albert E. Cliffe.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sir Barnett Cocks.: "A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think Other quotes by George Crane.: "Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find truth people men man religion important fact Other quotes by Aleister Crowley.: "Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Marie Curie.: "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life dreams grow Other quotes by Mary Beth Danielson.: "If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Eugene Delacroix.: "What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough."
Quote link. Other quotes by Marquis de Sade.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk human man good wish soul Other quotes by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky.: "If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope first time mind Other quotes by F Scott.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope work war Other quotes by Sextus Julius Frontinus.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Robert F. Goheen.: "In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Rmy de Gourmont.: "Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god pain creative Other quotes by A. Whitney Griswold.: "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost bad history run Other quotes by A. Whitney Griswold.: "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope world good Other quotes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts.: "I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life belief Other quotes by Etty Hilsum.: "One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life mind Other quotes by Richard Hofstadter.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work never Other quotes by Robert Hutchins.: "The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by C. D. Jackson.: "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never rest Other quotes by Richard Jefferies.: "Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
Quote link. Other quotes by Judge John Kane.: "The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old lies Other quotes by John Maynard Keynes.: "The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day Other quotes by Alex Kroll.: "Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man mind Other quotes by Max Lerner.: "America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world man life worse Other quotes by Archibald MacLeish.: "It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness life living courage Other quotes by Maxwell Maltz.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost bad art teach Other quotes by Stephen Neill.: "The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Rolfe Neill.: "Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Alfred Bernhard Nobel.: "If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think Other quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe.: "I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think Other quotes by David Ogilvie.: "The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."
Quote link. Other quotes by Alexander Osborn.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right god think man Other quotes by John Owen.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience courage Other quotes by Hyman Rickover.: "Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human world men person Other quotes by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books experience book person society fact Other quotes by Charles Scribner, Jr..: "Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Spinoza.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Douglas South Wind.: "You can tell the ideas of a nation by it's advertisements."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right people Other quotes by Tommy Smothers.: "The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change perfect Other quotes by Laurence Sterne.: "Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain music Other quotes by Harriet.: "Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old truth pain value past future change rich grow Other quotes by Dr. Dale E. Turner.: "Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something little people Other quotes by Brenda Ueland.: "These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as 'I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small people mind Other quotes by Unknown.: "Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god Other quotes by Alfred Victor Vigny.: "The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america find old men Other quotes by Theodore Harold White.: "Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Alfred North Whitehead.: "Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
Quote link. Other quotes about: something Other quotes by Alfred North Whitehead.: "The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost bad history wisdom run education Other quotes by Alfred Whitney.: "Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Grant Wood.: "All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: living change deep Other quotes by Miriam Beard.: "Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by David H. Comins.: "People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first."
Quote link. Other quotes about: answer Other quotes by Hortense Calisher.: "This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth Other quotes by William O. Douglas.: "The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk never people men love Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: game Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book Other quotes by bell hooks.: "Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man rest Other quotes by John Haldane.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.: "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
Quote link. Other quotes by Seneca.: "The best ideas are common property."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power world men good mind fact Other quotes by J. Arthur Thomson.: "The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lee Iacocca.: "You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human man Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die men Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world good Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Warren Bennis.: "People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength think life music Other quotes by George Eliot.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk never people men love Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: game Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small man words Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Henry Ward Beecher.: "All words are pegs to hang ideas on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man person Other quotes by Anon..: "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Mann.: "It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available."
Quote link. Other quotes about: book rule Other quotes by Dale Carnegie.: "The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use"
Quote link. Other quotes about: think important fear mind Other quotes by Thomas J. Watson.: "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost."
Quote link. Other quotes about: good Other quotes by Linus Pauling.: "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history life Other quotes by Norman Cousins.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live men freedom children child Other quotes by Walter Lippmann.: "When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions."
Quote link. Other quotes by G. C. Lichtenberg.: "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america reason man today person courage future fear society Other quotes by Robert Francis Kennedy.: "The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Anthony D'Angelo.: "The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america truth people value fact Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Aldous Huxley.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Hellen Keller.: "College isn't the place to go for ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes by Harold Abelson.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live people Other quotes by Anatole France.: "It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never rest Other quotes by Pearl Bailey.: "Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ursula K. LeGuin.: "You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: grow teach Other quotes by Elbert Hubbard.: "The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man wise mankind Other quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.: "The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live children child teach Other quotes by Walt Disney.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science words Other quotes by Samuel Johnson.: "Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world value belief Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk small people Other quotes by Fran Lebowitz.: "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."
Quote link. Other quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca.: "The best ideas are common property."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live time Other quotes by Thomas Alva Edison.: "I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Alva Edison.: "Great ideas originate in the muscles."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good Other quotes by Howard Aiken.: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man Other quotes by Chinese Proverb.: "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: clothes Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Jean Cocteau.: "The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first time mind Other quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald.: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe human fact Other quotes by George Santayana.: "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
Quote link. Other quotes by Diane Ackerman.: "There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die think men Other quotes by Richard Adams.: "The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power day forget Other quotes by William Adams.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Julie Arabi.: "The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air."
Quote link. Other quotes about: small find work Other quotes by Matthew Arnold.: "Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books men book influence mind Other quotes by Carl Lotus Becker.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time forget Other quotes by Hector Berlioz.: "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."
Quote link. Other quotes by Eric Bentley.: "Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man belief mind Other quotes by Henry Bessemer.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes by Mary Manin Boggs.: "My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right time need Other quotes by Edward De Bono.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe people value Other quotes by Gerald.: "Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."

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