Idea Quotes - page 2

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. (Carl Sagan)
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
E. W. Howe
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt Disney
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. (John F. Kennedy)
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis de Sade
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.
J. M. W. Turner
The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds & because it tends to public economy.
William Ewart Gladstone
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
Donald Knuth
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. (Newt Gingrich)
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.
Henry Miller
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou