Ideas Quotes

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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. — Grace Paley
Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new… — Peggy Noonan
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of… — Baruch Spinoza
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's… — J. William Fulbright
Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes… — Robert D. Hare
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an… — Robert M. Pirsig
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals… — Thomas Jefferson
This week I've travelled more than 15,000 miles from America to China to Burma to Australia. I have no idea what time it is right… — Barack Obama
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.… — Katherine Anne Porter
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three… — Flannery O'Connor
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat… — E. M. Forster
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical… — Sigmund Freud
No ideas but in things. — William Carlos Williams
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or… — Jamaica Kincaid
The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would… — Unknown Author
I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something… — Lorde
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when, in reality, I'm… — Robert Pattinson
If we are to achieve a world free from nuclear weapons, we need the involvement of young people. Youth have energy, enthusiasm and many good… — Marc Kielburger
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can… — Eboo Patel
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like your life, you're… — Robert Pattinson
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is… — Hannah More
You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a voice. Social networking… — Ban Ki-moon

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