A Quotes
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“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.”
“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 is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.”
Source: How We Think: Top American Authors
“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”
“An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”
Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.”
Source: The philosophy of right: The philosophy of history
“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.”
Source: Pilgermann
“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.”
“An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.”
Source: Under the Dome: A Novel
“An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.”
“An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.”
“An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew”
“An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.”
Source: Feared Intellectualism
“An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.”
“An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.”
“An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams.”
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940
“An idea is something that won't work unless you do.”
“An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you”
“An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.”
“An idea is worthless unless you use it.”
“An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.”
Source: J. S. Bach
“An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.”
“An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.”
Source: The Business of Life
“An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.”
“An idea like Christianity or Islam was all but inevitable. As human civilisation grew more complex, as polities grew larger, as economies became more interconnected it was a matter of time before someone got people under the banner of “One Only Revealed God vs False Gods” (which is very different from monism or henotheism).
It was tried first in ancient Egypt, quickly buried, there were some signs of it in Iran, then it rose again with Moses, this time successfully though in a localised format, and finally proliferated through two world religions.
Earlier, people were (obviously) fighting each other since time immemorial but religion per se was not weaponised. Gods were all around you, even within you — there was no idea of a Jealous Father Sky-Figure condemning idolatry and Other Gods which were all deemed Satanic.”
“An idea may evolve and a thought may change but they never die once they come into existence, so unlike humans.”
“An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.”
“An idea, no matter how small, holds the universe's power; for within its simplicity, the potential of greatness sleeps; the spark that ignite the fire of change, turning fleeting thoughts into roaring flames of innovation”
“An idea on paper to a reality in large part.”
“An idea once seized, I fell to work. "Human Justice" rushed before me in novel guise, a red, random beldame, with a rms akimbo. I saw her in her house, the den of confusion: servants called to her for orders or help which she did not give; beggars stood at her door waiting and starving unnoticed; a swarm of children, sick and quarrelsome, crawled round her feet, and yelled in her ears appeals for notice, sympathy, cure, redress. The honest woman cared for none of these things. She had a warm seat of her own by the fire, she had her own solace in a short black pipe, and a bottle of Mrs. Sweeny's soothing syrup; she smoked and she sipped, and she enjoyed her paradise; and whenever a cry of the suffering souls about her 'pierced her ears too keenly--my jolly dame seized the poker or the hearth-brush: if the offender was weak, wronged, and sickly, she effectually settled him: if he was strong, lively, and violent, she only menaced, then plunged her hand in her deep pouch, and flung a liberal shower of sugar-plums.”
Source: Villette
“An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.”
“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 or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.”
“An idea packaged up in nonfiction is a completely different animal to an idea packaged up in fiction. And while the lines blur in that hybrid creature called narrative nonfiction, we should be under no illusions that they’re the same animal.”
Source: Sending Signals: Amplify the Reach, Resonance and Results of Your Ideas
“An idea, regardless of how noble it might be, is only an idea until someone has the idea to act upon it.”
“An idea's worth is commensurate to the idea's evidence.”
“An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.”
Source: MAKE WAY FOR LUCIA - Complete Mapp and Lucia Series (6 Novels & 2 Short Story Collections): Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp, Lucia in London, Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia, Trouble for Lucia, The Male Impersonator and Desirable Residences
“An idea sparked like flint striking stone. "If you were guilty and wanted to hide, where might you go first?"
"Depends on what I'm guilty of. Dirty thoughts or wanton follies, I'd send myself straight to your quarters to be punished.”
Source: Hunting Prince Dracula
“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“An idea that can change the course of the company can come from anywhere.”
“An idea that is confident always looks masculine.”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.”
“An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.”
“An idea that sounds definite when aired as an opinion may not always appear so certain when applied to human beings.”
Source: Gora
“An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.”
“An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.”
Source: Suggestion and Autosuggestion: A Psychological and Pedagogical Study Based Upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School