IDEA

Related Subjects: Fancy, Intelligence, Knowledge, Principle, Speculation, Theories, Thought

1. I am convinced that a person's behavior springs from his ideas. How we interpret the great and important facts of existence depends upon our style of life.—ALFRED ADLER, Social Interest
   

2. If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them.—BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
   

3. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.—WALTER BAGEHOT, Physics and Politics
   

4. Only the wise possess ideas ; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.—COLERIDGE, Miscellanies
   

5. God screens us evermore from premature ideas.—EMERSON, Essays

6. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.—EMERSON, Miscellanies
   

7. When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the
   idea, to which also Plato was debtor.—EMERSON, Representative Men
   

8. Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.—FROUDE, Short Studies
   

9. One can only oppose an Idea with a better Idea.—ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
   

10. Every idea must have a visual enfolding.—VICTOR HUGO
    

11. The public doesn't require any new ideas. The public is best served by the good, old-fashioned ideas it already has.—IBSEN, An Enemy of the People
    

12. Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.—HENRY JAMES, Charles W. Eliot
    

13. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.—WILLIAM JAMES, Varieties of Religious Experience
    

14. Let me exhort everyone to do their utmost to think outside and beyond our present circle of ideas. For every idea gained is a hundred years of slavery remitted.—RICHARD JEFFERIES, The Story of My Heart
    

15. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.—JEFFERSON
    

16. That fellow seems to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

17. I do not believe in salvation through an idea, because every idea must perish as it succeeds.—EMIL LUDWIG, I Believe
    

18. An Idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.—DON MARQUIS, The Sun Dial
    

19. The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.—KARL MARX, Manifesto of the Communist Party
    

20. 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, Prejudices
    

21. For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.—SANTAYANA, Words of Doctrine
    

22. The best ideas are common property.—SENECA
    

23. This creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the
    backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.—BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
    

24. To pull you through. Avoid ideas—they're common
    And might crack through the varnish of your smile,
    Impinge upon your worship of God Mammon
    Filling your soul with pity, and things vile.—OSBERT SITWELL, Collected Satires
    

25. Early ideas are not usually true ideas.—HERBERT SPENCER, Principles of Biology

26. I require three or four cubic feet of new ideas per day, as a steamboat requires coal.—STENDHAL
    

27. It's bad form to think, feel, or have an idea.—ALFRED SUTRO, The Walls of Jericho
    

28. Ten thousand great ideas filled his mind;
    But with the clouds they fled, and left no trace behind.—JAMES THOMSON, Castle of Indolence
    

29. Through thy idea, lo, the immortal reality!
    Through thy reality, lo, the immortal idea!—WALT WHITMAN, Thou Mother With Thy EqualBrood