Idea Quotes - page 3

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. (Paul Valéry)
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 possessed. View quote
Joseph Addison
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. View quote
Hans Hofmann
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. View quote
Angela Carter
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. View quote
Orson Welles
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. View quote
Guy Debord
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. View quote
Napoleon Hill
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. (Adlai Stevenson II)
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. View quote
Mortimer Adler
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. View quote
Thomas Merton
I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it. View quote
Anthony Stewart Head
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. View quote
James A. Michener
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. View quote
Helen Keller
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. (Ray Bradbury)
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard