Ideas Quote by William Ellery Channing

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

— William Cowper

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

— Ayn Rand

“Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though we try…

— Henry Miller

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at…

— Charles Lindbergh

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

— Anonymous

The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.

— Eric Idle

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the…

— Eugene Field

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep…

— Rene Dubos

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

— Subhas Chandra Bose

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

— Gerald Brommer

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

“Ideas are not dangerous unless they find seeding place in some earth more profound than the mind.”

— John Steinbeck