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Ideas Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
- I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
- Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
- 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…
- Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of…
- Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon or planets. They…
- The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
- If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
- It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and…
- That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,…
- To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening…
- Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man…
- I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed…
More Ideas Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe