Ideas Quotes

She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.

~ Wade Davis

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

~ Samuel Butler

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation.

~ James Joseph Sylvester

We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

It's important to know what you think, my dear, or else you will be so hemmed in by other people's ideas and opinions, you won't have room for your own.

~ Karen Cushman

The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

~ Semen Frank

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

~ Patricia Crone

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

~ Jonathan V. Last

Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.

~ William Carlos Williams

No man is as big as his own idea.

~ Ray Bradbury

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

~ Joel Osteen

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

~ Kevin Kelly

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

~ Dallas Willard

The difference between ideas and resources is that resources has its limits.

~ Santosh Kalwar

The more good ideas you have, the more good ideas you will get.

~ Audrey Moralez

I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

~ Joyce Rachelle

But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with them. If you try to understand them, they may entangle and get hold of you, and then where will you be? Hide your mind from them, and hide them from your mind. Stick to the plain common sense of life. There will always be a tomorrow rather like today. At least so far there always has been a fairly similar tomorrow. Once or twice lately there have been jolts... Try not to notice these jolts. 'It is no good meeting trouble halfway.

~ H.g. Wells

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression.

~ Unarine Ramaru

...M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

~ Alexandre Dumas

If you thought of it, don't be fooled into thinking it is a dumb Idea.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The mouth tastes food, the heart tastes words.

~ Hmong Proverb

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

~ Tim Fargo

Ideas matter—and philosophy is the art of thinking about them rigorously. In my view, that should be done in as public a forum as possible.

~ Sam Harris

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

~ Amit Kalantri

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

~ Alain De Botton

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. Become open to new information that can refine, improve, and enhance your way of thinking. This will empower your way of living.

~ Steve Maraboli

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.

~ Myles Horton

Honesty is vulnerability. Sadly, not everyone can handle someone’s honesty. However, lying allows people to be comfortable.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors. When ignorance and hate enter the room, progress makes its exit.

~ Steve Maraboli

Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human lif. It is much more serious. For when you end the life of a book you destroy the ideas of countless thinkers who inspired it, and condemn future generations to darkness and ignorance.

~ Photozeiger

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of th

~ John F. Kennedy

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

No burden is heavier to bear than the burden of a false idea.

~ Marty Rubin

We’ve searched all of the homes and carried the food to Ralph’s,” Sam continued. “The problem is that all the fruit and veggies spoiled while we were all filling up on chips and cookies. The meat all rotted. People were stupid and careless, and there’s nothing we can do about that now.” Sam swallowed the bitterness he felt, the anger he felt at his own foolishness. “But we have food sitting out in the fields. Maybe not the food we’d like, but enough to carry us for months—many months—if we bring it in before it rots and the birds eat it.”“Maybe we’ll get rescued, and we won’t have to worry,” another voice said.“Maybe we’ll learn to live on air,” Astrid muttered under her breath but loudly enough to be heard by at least a few.“Why don’t you go get our food back from Drake and the chuds up there?”It was Zil. He accepted a congratulatory slap on the back from a creepy kid named Antoine, part of Zil’s little posse.“Because it would mean getting some kids killed,” Sam said bluntly. “We’d be lucky to rescue any of the food, and we’d end up digging more graves in the plaza. And it wouldn’t solve our problem, anyway.

~ Michael Grant

Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan