Earth Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

— Anonymous

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

— Bryant H. McGill

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

— Subhas Chandra Bose

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other…

— Gregory Berns

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“No nation has been on earth since the beginning of time and the very concept of nationhood is pretty recent. Despite that, most nations…

— Milan Kundera

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The term "national idea" is an unclear one. One might think of it as a widely shared understanding among a people as to the…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan