Ideas Quotes

If we are to succeed in the great struggle of ideas that is under way, we must first of all know what we believe. We must also become clear in our own minds as to what it is that we want to preserve.

Remember: if an idea fits on a bumper sticker, it’s seldom terribly thoughtful.

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book – provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the […]

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

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Ideas control the world.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.