Ideas Quotes

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale

Best, Night, Before

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

Good, Down, Worry

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Nature, Broad, Interpret

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Words, Genius

Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
Karen Armstrong

Change, Time, God

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
Paul Ryan

Future, Emotional, Play

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. Wilson

Real, Sake, Emerge

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
Henry Rollins

Concerned, Impact, Skill

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames

Everything, Quality, Key

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Idea, Born, Foolish

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom, Enemy, Events

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
Bryant H. McGill

Strength, Truth, Ignorance

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke

Great, Words, Themselves

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
John Locke

Mind, Reflection, Float

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Jose Marti

May, Down, Impossible

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

Human, Between, Facts

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis

Gun, Instinct, Trigger

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Life, Courage, Mind

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
Andrew Cohen

Fear, Pain, Woman

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
Mason Cooley

Thoughts, Cannot, Around

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nicolaus Copernicus

God, Truth, Human

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings

Words, Often, Idea

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil

Nothing, Cannot, Dead

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Moral, Means, Possible

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam, Democracy, Trying

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Fear, Mind, Path

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono

Business, School, Mind

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