Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Fran Lebowitz

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Jean-Luc Godard

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana

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

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel Castro

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Leon Trotsky

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin

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

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

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

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.
Howard Zinn

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
Shel Silverstein

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Donatella Versace

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
Neil Young

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