Quotes About Ideas

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battle ships.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Faith in our own talent is the gravity, the force that keeps us in orbit around the potential of our own passions and ideas, even when we are temporarily marooned on the dark side of the moon.

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.