ideas quotes

• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. (Friedrich Nietzsche) []
• Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. (Vladimir Nabokov) [literary style/essence/]
• It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Thomas Mann) [strange/equality//democracy]
• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. (Abraham Lincoln) [words/]
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. (Henry Ward Beecher) [ability/]
• Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [/nature/nature]
• The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. (Carl Ally) [flower//form/faith]
• We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. - (Henry Ward Beecher) [/quarrel/god/content]
• Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. (Henry Ward Beecher) [/truth]
• All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Henry Ward Beecher) [words/]
• The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. (Walter Benjamin) [art///fashion]
• I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. (Emily Bronte) [life/dreams//wine]
• Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! () [/paper/waste]
• Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. (Raymond Chandler) [oblivion/thinking//power]
• Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy! (Joseph Conrad) [/mind]
• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free. (Joseph Conrad) [spirit//absolute/mind]
• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas. (Albert Einstein) [talent/curiosity/]
• The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. (Albert Einstein) [/time/time/courage]
• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. (Albert Einstein) [/science/language]
• Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. (George Eliot) [rest/impressions/]
• We are prisoners of ideas. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) []
• It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [men/trust/]
• Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [/men/dreams]
• We are the prisoners of ideas. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) []
• There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think. (Michel Foucault) [more//intellectuals/]
• It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France) [acts//people]
• The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [wisdom/]
• Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [people//men/love]
• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [/start]
• When ideas fail, words come in very handy. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [/fail/words]
• It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence. (William Golding) [moment/]

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