Quotes
Quotes about Ideas
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that ‘walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea.
The thing is to sow the ideas widely. Then when the time comes for turning them into action the world of the believer will be ready
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to "stink of Zen." -Alan Watts
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to "stink of Zen." -Alan Watts
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
If you don't execute your ideas, they die.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.
Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
