Quotes About Ideas

When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.