Quotes About Idea

The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible...

The cost and risk of developing an innovative idea are borne by the initiator, not the follower.

Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the Shadow.")

Surely they knew that the very idea of the future came in an American box -- complete with instructions for assembling a Constitution, a MacDonald's hamburger franchise, a row of Marriot hotels and a First Amendment.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

A concept is an idea that has been evolved to the point where a story becomes possible. A concept becomes a platform, a stage, upon which a story may unfold. A concept, it could be said—and it should be viewed this way—is something that asks a question. The answer to the question is your story.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

Enlightenment, after all, is just one more bone. It's an idea we have.

The biblical texts typically taken as reflecting the idea of divine immutability (e.g., Num 23:19; Ps 46:1-3; 102:25-28; Jas 1:17; Heb 13:8) all seem to emphasize what we may call a moral immutability, i.e., divine trustworthiness

Harding's] speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over a landscape in search of an idea. Sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it off triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.

Of course women cared about stature, too, but they learned early to surrender any idea that life was a series of fair exchanges.

At the very least, your idea can change your organization. But it won't go anywhere unless you know how to present it to those in power—and fight for it through the worst of their criticism.

who relied on hearsay or the artful blending of hearsay with fact. If Pigafetta had any idea of emulating Polo

Nothing in the world...is so powerful as an idea that tells people exactly what they want to hear.

Form was not born from an idea. It was an idea vanishing.

The worst thing a suicidal type of man can do is not killing himself, but thinking of it and not doing it. Nothing is more abject than the state of moral disintegration that inspires the idea—the habitual idea—of suicide. Responsibility, conscience, strength of mind, all drift aimlessly about in that dead sea, submerged or brought to the surface again by any chance current.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority.

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

I have endeavored in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful Friend and Servant, C.D. December, 1843.

King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking the heads of other men, was mightily impatient to go on a Crusade to the Holy Land, with a great army.

I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

But, although the future is unknowable, it is not unimaginable. As Ludwig von Mises put it: "The entrepreneurial idea that carries on and brings profit is precisely that idea which did not occur to the majority. It is not correct foresight as such that yields profits, but foresight better than that of the rest. The prize goes only to the dissenters, who do not let themselves be misled by the errors accepted by the multitude."6