Ideas Quotes

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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth.… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous. — Julian Huxley
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of… — William Hazlitt
Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we… — Alan Moore
Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality. — William Wordsworth
Thought makes everything fit for use. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour. — Lord Byron
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life. — George Bernard Shaw
A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea. — Hans Hofmann
Words are the small change of thought. — Jules Renard
Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. — Lord Byron
It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing. — John Lyly
Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas. — Mandell Creighton
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to… — Samuel Johnson
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald
The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together. — Samuel Johnson
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. — Aristotle
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell
The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. — Mark Twain
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul. — James Russell Lowell

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