Idea Quotes

Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.