People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry Miller