Ideas Quotes

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Suffering is part of the divine idea. — Henry Ward Beecher
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have… — Henry Ward Beecher
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with… — Elisabeth Rohm
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. — Walter Benjamin
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels… — Arnold Bennett
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. — Warren G. Bennis
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. — Irving Berlin
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. — Hector Berlioz
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. — Claude Bernard
Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a… — Sarah Bernhardt
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. — Mortimer Adler
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an… — Wendell Berry
The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to… — Wendell Berry
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of… — Annie Besant
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but… — Annie Besant
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's… — Annie Besant
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct… — Mary McLeod Bethune
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of… — Joe Biden
Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that… — Joe Biden
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct… — Buffalo Bill
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. — Josh Billings
Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes. — Juliette Binoche
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea. — David Blaine

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