Idea Quotes
9651 quotes by 5432 authors
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Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
— Sam Walton
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"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our…
— Craig Newmark
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But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
— Brendan Gill
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The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking…
— Kurt Lewin
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Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they…
— Carl Sagan
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from…
— Edith Hamilton
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I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with all the moral…
— Lucretia Mott
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A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really…
— Barbra Streisand
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged…
— Ernestine Rose
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This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come in with their…
— Martha Stewart
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When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of…
— Howie Mandel
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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
— Ernest Renan
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present…
— George Washington
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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without…
— Franklin Pierce
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You…
— Cesare Pavese
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