The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ideas Quotes
Don’t express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe,and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Everything you see and touch was once an invisible idea until someone chose to bring it into being. Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.
Where do you get your crazy ideas?” asked the gentleman twenty rows back, the first question in the second hour of the lecture. There was a mass low chuckle from the couple-thousand people in the Civic Auditorium… he was not the only one curious about that… For the moment I had walked to the footlights […]
A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine… ‘Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned.’ That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
