Ideas Quote by William James

We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

— William Feather

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on.

— William McFee

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

— William McFee

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

— Guy Sajer

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed…

— Jacques Barzun

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

— Anonymous

Every man should be capable of all ideas.

— Jorge Luis Borges

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

— Joseph Joubert

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only…

— Oren Arnold

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

— Franz Grillparzer

Young men preen. Old men scheme.

— Mason Cooley

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth…

— Plato