Ideas Quotes

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

Poetry is – it’s an art form, but, to me, it’s also a weapon, it’s also an instrument. It’s the ability to make ideas that have been known, felt and said. And that’s a real, I think, type of duty for the poet.

I never could bear the idea of anyone’s expecting something from me. It always made me want to do the opposite.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

The idea that marriage has to be for all time – that I don’t understand.

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.