Ideas Quotes

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

Music, Today, Living

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

Forward, Winning, Game

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
Joseph Stalin

Or 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.
Walt Disney

Live, Children, Feelings

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.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Feelings, Achieve

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Napoleon Hill

Eyes, Light, Minds

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm

Progress, Standing, Sidelines

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

Writing, Living, Desk

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
Napoleon Hill

Beginning, Fortunes, Points

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?
Dale Carnegie

Book, Jesus, Put

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

Word, Situation, Fail

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

Words, Fail, Handy

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

Thoughts, Cannot, Old

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo

Genius, Unless, Languages

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Great, Human, Book

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.
Ansel Adams

Art, Creative, Factual

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!
Mitt Romney

Time, Big, Brother

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

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison

Great, Muscles, Originate

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

Success, Secret, Ability

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Work, Good, Hard

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo

Single, Two, Facts

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo

Cannot, Army, Resist

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James

Men, Before, Lives

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.
Russell Simmons

Recognized, Locked, Mostly

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

Caring, Able, Often

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte

Life, Dreams, Mind

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