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Quotes About Ideas

It strengthened his long-held conviction that one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.
~ David Lagercrantz
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
~ David Lynch
People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.
~ David Lynch
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
~ Johannes Brahms
Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.
~ Frank Laubach
Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
Sin lives solely by plagiarising the ideas of God
~ Abraham Kuyper
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
~ C. S. Lewis
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!
~ Honore de Balzac
God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.
~ Scot McKnight
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
~ Maxim Gorky
Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.
~ Phil Vischer
The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.
~ James V. Schall
Campaigns are no longer high-minded exchanges of ideas, even though God knows we need more good ones - ideas, that is.
~ Charlie Pierce
People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
~ Oswald Chambers
We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.
~ Richard Curtis
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.
~ Emanuel Cleaver
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.
~ John Baldessari
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!
~ Katherine Cecil Thurston
If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
~ Linus Pauling
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
~ Mas Oyama