Quotes About Ideas

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, mental conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.