Our Ideas Quotes

141 quotes by 132 authors

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas… — Karen Armstrong
Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. — Maya Angelou
The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our… — Karl Ernst von Baer
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.'… — Doris Lessing
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated… — Oscar Arias
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. — Laura Ashley
The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God… — Frank Laubach
Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free. — Melody Beattie
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects. — William Hazlitt
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them. — Claude Bernard
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually… — George Santayana
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged. — William O. Douglas
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure… — Frederic Bastiat
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. — Jean Genet
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential… — Mark Epstein
We do not make photographs with our cameras. We make them with our minds, with our hearts, with our ideas. — Arnold Newman
We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to… — William J. Clinton
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
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. — Henry Ward Beecher
We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops. — John Cleese

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