"Ideas are, in truth, force."
Read quote
8 likes
Ideas quotes
Ideas
16.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Ideas
Browse quotes that often appear alongside ideas — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Ideas quotes (page 74 of 821)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter"
Read quote
8 likes
"The talking shows are like free jazz. I'm just gonna go out there and blow with the idea of keeping it streamlined and not wasting time. It's wild. And it's a great thing when you see a performer really able to."
Read quote
8 likes
"Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
Read quote
8 likes
"It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in."
Read quote
8 likes
"You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you."
Read quote
8 likes
"There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light."
Read quote
8 likes
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
Read quote
8 likes
"I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once."
Read quote
8 likes
"Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type."
Read quote
8 likes
"Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?"
Read quote
8 likes
"Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory."
Read quote
8 likes
"You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore."
Read quote
8 likes
"When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic - here on Sixth Avenue, for instance - I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound... I don’t need sound to talk to me."
Read quote
8 likes
"Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave."
Read quote
8 likes
"In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all."
Read quote
8 likes
"It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call."
Read quote
8 likes
"Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised."
Read quote
8 likes
"The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths."
Read quote
8 likes
"The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea."
Read quote
8 likes