The Key To Every Man Is His Thought…. He Can Only Be Reformed By Showing Him A New Idea Which Commands His Own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There Are Only Two Kinds Of Scholars; Those Who Love Ideas And Those Who Hate Them.
- Emile Chartier
The Way To Combat Noxious Ideas Is With Other Ideas. The Way To Combat Falsehoods Is With Truth.
- William O. Douglas
Books Won’t Stay Banned. They Won’t Burn. Ideas Won’t Go To Jail. In The Long Run Of History, The Censor And The Inquisitor Have Always Lost. The Only Sure Weapon Against Bad Ideas Is Better Ideas. The Source Of Better Ideas Is Wisdom. The Surest Path To Wisdom Is A Liberal Education.
- Whitney Griswold
Ideals Are Like Stars: You Will Not Succeed In Touching Them With Your Hands, But Like The Seafaring Man On The Ocean Desert Of Waters, You Choose Them As Your Guides, And Following Them, You Reach Your Destiny.
- Carl Schurz
I Said To Myself, I Have Things In My Head That Are Not Like What Anyone Has Taught Me – Shapes And Ideas So Near To Me – So Natural To My Way Of Being And Thinking That It Hasn’t Occurred To Me To Put Them Down. I Decided To Start Anew, To Strip Away What I Had Been Taught.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
People Laugh At Me Because I Use Big Words. But If You Have Big Ideas You Have To Use Big Words To Express Them, Haven’t You?
- L. M. Montgomery
Do Something. If It Doesn’t Work, Do Something Else. No Idea Is Too Crazy.
- Jim Hightower
To Die For An Idea; It Is Unquestionably Noble. But How Much Nobler It Would Be If Men Died For Ideas That Were True!
- H. L. Mencken
It Is By Acts And Not By Ideas That People Live.
- Anatole France
Any Man Who Afflicts The Human Race With Ideas Must Be Prepare To See Them Misunderstood.
Good Ideas Are Not Adopted Automatically. They Must Be Driven Into Practice With Courageous Patience.
- Hyman Rickover
A Handsome Parson Is Fit For Nothing But Ti Put Ideas Into The Young Woman’s Heads.
- Judith Brocklehurst
Every Composer Knows The Anguish And Despair Occasioned By Forgetting Ideas Which One Had No Time To Write Down.
- Hector Berlioz
An Invasion Of Armies Can Be Resisted, But Not An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
- Victor Hugo
The Human Mind Treats A New Idea The Same Way The Body Treats A Strange Protein; It Rejects It.
- P. B. Medawar
When Ideas Fail, Words Come In Very Handy.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No One Has Ever Had An Idea In A Dress Suit.
- Sir Frederick G. Banting
One Of The Greatest Pains To Human Nature Is The Pain Of A New Idea.
- Walter Bagehot
College Isn’t The Place To Go For Ideas.
- Helen Keller
The Vitality Of Thought Is In Adventure. Ideas Won’t Keep. Something Must Be Done About Them.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Everyone Is A Genius At Least Once A Year. The Real Geniuses Simply Have Their Bright Ideas Closer Together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
So Many New Ideas Are At First Strange And Horrible, Though Ultimately Valuable That A Very Heavy Responsibility Rests Upon Those Who Would Prevent Their Dissemination.
- J. B. S. Haldane
Ideas Are Like Rabbits. You Get A Couple And Learn How To Handle Them, And Pretty Soon You Have A Dozen.
- John Steinbeck
He Can Compress The Most Words Into The Smallest Ideas Of Any Man I Ever Met.
- Abraham Lincoln
I Had A Monumental Idea This Morning, But I Didn’t Like It.
- Samuel Goldwyn
An Idea Is Salvation By Imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I Can’t Understand Why People Are Frightened Of New Ideas. I’m Frightened Of The Old Ones.
- John Cage
All Opening Moves Were The Same, Like In Chess. You Don’t Have To Come Up With Anything New, There’s No Point, Because You’re Both After The Same Thing Anyway. The Game Soon Finds Its Own Way And It’s Only At That Point That You Need A Strategy.
- Paolo Giordano
If An Idea’s Worth Having Once, It’s Worth Having Twice.
- Tom Stoppard
The Best Ideas Are Common Property.
- Seneca
This Is My Answer To The Gap Between Ideas And Action – I Will Write It Out.
- Hortense Calisher
Man’s Mind, Once Stretched By A New Idea, Never Regains Its Original Dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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