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Ideas Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
- The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination,…
- At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a…
- Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
- He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
- There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
- A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who…
- They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
- The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the…
- But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.
- I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which…
- A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by…
- Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- 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
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe