Ideas Quotes

13167 Ideas quotes by 6467 unique authors

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but… — John Ambrose Fleming
We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong,… — August Krogh
[Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall,… — Arthur Fry
I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to… — Ryoko Tani
What borders on the criminal is the poor teaching and neglect of those subjects that deal with the history of ideas and ideals, a knowledge… — John Mortimer Smith
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create. — Nicolas Malebranche
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images. — Steven Bochco
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
It is useless to send armies against ideas. — Georg Brandes
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. — Julia Cameron
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. — Mona Caird
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. — Klemens von Metternich
These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. — Unknown Author
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion. — Euan Uglow
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's… — Hanoi Hannah
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will… — George Frederic Watts
The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still… — Unknown Author
There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity — Forest Ray Moulton
The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you… — Gene Hoffman
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. — Alfred de Musset
The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of Eastern philosophies. What… — Dean Radin
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior." — Amy Vanderbilt
When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us… — F. Matthias Alexander
I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom… — John Pugsley

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