Ideas Quotes

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[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a… — Alexander Hamilton
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the… — Ronald Reagan
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to… — Barack Obama
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the world. Wisdom is… — Immanuel Kant
I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are… — Jack Handey
Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. — Holbrook Jackson
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions. — Eric Bentley
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,… — Anne Frank
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — Walter Bagehot
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being… — Casey Miller
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people… — Wim Wenders
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right… — William Hazlitt
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive… — Alice Walker
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons… — Samuel Johnson
As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man,… — Desiderius Erasmus
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,… — J. G. Ballard
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to… — Aberjhani
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that… — Soren Kierkegaard
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages,… — Bill Gates
It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself. .… — Isak Dinesen
Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It… — Diane Ackerman
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin

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