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Quote 3166
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 3145
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 3107
Ideas are, in truth, force.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on ideas
Quote 3002
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2970
Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mindShowing Quotes on ideas
Quote 2947
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we haveby: John LockeShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2921
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already commonby: John LockeShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2920
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyeby: John LockeShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2911
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselvesby: John LockeShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2886
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsingShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2764
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalistby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on ideas
Quote 2763
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thoughtby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2697
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bidShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2673
A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.Showing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2594
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.Showing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2593
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideasShowing Quotes on ideas
Quote 2545
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.Showing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2527
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of changeShowing Quotes on ideas
Quote 2486
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate himShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2483
The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by themShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2311
We have to be creative and think of ways to make the airport more than just an airport. We need to think of ways to make it an economic-development hubby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2307
If your goal is to reduce costs, then coal is a good idea. If the goal is a renewable fuel, coal is a bad idea. When greenhouse-gas emissions go up, environmentalists take note. Then you've got a problemby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2229
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Showing Quotes on ideas
Quote 2194
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Showing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 2134
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the ravings of insanity, superstition gone to see! I want no part of such a Godby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 1786
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessedby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 1782
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselvesby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 1773
The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideasby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on ideas
Quote 1748
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovationsby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 1618
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of lifeby: Jean IngelowShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 1542
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongsShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 1035
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted successShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 1023
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of Godby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 949
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them againShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 914
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things newShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 893
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer togetherShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 629
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at allShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 494
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.by: Will RogersShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 463
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensionsShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 420
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.by: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 402
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.Showing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 398
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has comeShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 386
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Showing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 107
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junkShowing Quotes on ideas
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Quote 67
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeedsby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on ideas
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