Ideas Quotes

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Directing doesn't appeal to me. I'm much more in the world of ideas. My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.