Idea Quotes - page 4

An idea is salvation by imagination. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. View quote
Charles Dickens
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. View quote
Erich Fromm
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived? View quote
Stefan Zweig
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. View quote
Milan Kundera
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. View quote
Albert Einstein
...it is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. View quote
Randall Jarrell
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material. View quote
Peter Zumthor
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality. View quote
Thom Mayne
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. View quote
Franklin Pierce
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. View quote
Charles Cooley
I built my entire life on the idea of independence. View quote
Valerie Trierweiler
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. (Ludwig Quidde)
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume that there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. View quote
Louis L'Amour
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. View quote
Louis L'Amour
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. View quote
Brendan Gill
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby. View quote
Germaine Greer