Idea Quotes

9651 Idea quotes by 5432 unique authors

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of… — Baruch Spinoza
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's… — J. William Fulbright
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes… — Robert D. Hare
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an… — Robert M. Pirsig
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals… — Thomas Jefferson
This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right… — Barack Obama
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.… — Katherine Anne Porter
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… — Flannery O'Connor
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would… — Unknown Author
I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something… — Lorde
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when, in reality, I'm… — Robert Pattinson
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can… — Eboo Patel
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like your life, you're… — Robert Pattinson
I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was… — Robin Williams
I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,… — Corey Taylor
Popular thought appeals to crowds, gatherings and tribes, who use it as a way to guide the herd. It is very evident in protests -… — Corey Taylor
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made… — Corey Taylor
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. — Bernard Malamud
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. — Raymond E. Feist
If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the… — William Campbell Gault
There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it. — Lawrence Watt-Evans

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