Adler Mortimer J.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier) 1868-1951

Propos sur la religion

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

Anonymous

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Anonymous

Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.

Atkinson Brooks 1894-1984

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Avery Milton 1893-1965

The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.

Bolton Robert

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea possesses the mind.

Bridgman Percy Williams 1882-1961

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Darwin Sir Francis 1848-1925

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Eliot T.S. 1888-1965

´The Hollow Men'

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Hugo Victor 1802-1885

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Hugo Victor 1802-1885

A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Kempton Murray

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Malraux André 1901-1976

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

Marquis Don 1878-1937

archys life of mehitabel
did you ever
notice that when
a politician
does get an idea
he usually
gets it all wrong.

Moore Henry 1831-1895

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see if from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something.

O'casey Sean 1880-1964

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Osler Sir William 1849-1919

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Renard Jules 1864-1910

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

In all affairs, love, religion, politics or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

Santayana George 1863-1952

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

Wright Frank Lloyd 1867-1959

A n idea is salvation by imagination.

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