Clear Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Every notion is born along with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head

— Meret Oppenheim

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

— Remy de Gourmont

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

— Remy de Gourmont

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

— E. O. Wilson

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

— Swami Vivekananda

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

— Franz Grillparzer

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

— Wallace Stevens

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.

— Rene Thom

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

— Baruch Spinoza

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

— James Cook

You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of…

— Frederick Lenz

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

— J Harlen Bretz