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Quotes About Ideas

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
~ Adyashanti
Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.
~ Fidel Castro
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
~ Hermann Hesse
I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.
~ Bill Hicks
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
~ Pete Hautman
In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.
~ Harold Geneen
The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.
~ Agnes Varda
I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.
~ Barack Obama
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
~ William O. Douglas
Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.
~ James Jackson Jarves
Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Inspiration is someone who gives you freedom to think out of his own ways. He doesn't want you to believe in his own ideas.
~ M.H. Rakib
In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.
~ Menachem Begin
Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.
~ George Lucas
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
~ Steven Wright
In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.
~ Trey Parker
Ideas, Inspiration, Insights - All of that requires 'I' and an open mind.
~ Unknown
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea
~ Julia Cameron
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable
~ HL Mencken
A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.
~ Unknown
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea
~ Max Lerner
When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.
~ Clarence Thomas