Quotes About Ideas

If you're constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Men die but an idea does not.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.