Barriers Quote by Herbert Marcuse

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

— Mason Cooley

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.

— Franz Grillparzer

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

— Midge Decter

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

— Albert Bandura

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each…

— Midge Decter

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

— Eric Hoffer

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

— Agnes Denes

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't…

— David Bohm

Ideas disturb the levelness of life

— Susan Sontag

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

— Swami Vivekananda