Consistency Quote by William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot

— William James

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

— Robert Pinsky

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.

— William Shakespeare

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

— Ray Bradbury

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

— Thomas A. Edison

The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Ideas represent a wonderful manifestation of the functioning of the human mind.”

— Eraldo Banovac

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as…

— Claude Bernard

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

— Henry James

“If I ever conceive any original idea, it will be because I have been abnormally prone to confuse ideas ... and I have thus…

— Kenneth J.W. Craik

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

— Edward Gibbon

The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things.

— Willy Ley