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Idea Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
- We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and…
- We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
- There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
- One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
- The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
- When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
- God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea,…
- The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a…
- So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth?…
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea…
- One idea lights a thousand candles.
- Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of…
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
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- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe
- I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood
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