Best 15702 quotes in «ideas quotes» category

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.

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

An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

An idea on paper to a reality in large part.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

An idea that is confident always looks masculine.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

An individual is as alive as he has ideas. He's as aware as he has ideas.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them.

An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God.

An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation.