Ideas Quotes

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Action is thought tempered by illusion. — Elbert Hubbard
Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth. — Lord Byron
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with… — Joseph Addison
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion. — Quintilian
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination. — George Santayana
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes… — Ugo Betti
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun
Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons… — Lionel Trilling
Few of us stand prosperity; another man's I mean. — Mark Twain
Any sensibility which can be crammed into the mold of a system, or handled with the rough tools of proof, is no longer sensibility at… — Susan Sontag
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon — Peter Lynch
That's all an angel is....an idea of God. — Meister Eckhart
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of him. That is all an angel is: an… — Meister Eckhart
Drop all ideas of achieving in meditation, just do it naturally; what happens happens on its own. One day, effortlessly, everything starts happening by itself. — Rajneesh
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid. — Michel Gondry
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier… — Anita Brookner
Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to… — Louis C. K.
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does… — Thomas A. Edison
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which… — Martin Luther
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change,… — Theodore Levitt
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. — Edward de Bono
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. — Albert Einstein
When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. — Ernest Holmes

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