Quotes about Idea
Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:
— Margaret Atwood
men never really overcome fear until they imagine they are fighting to further a universal purpose—fighting for an idea, as they call it. Why was the Crusader braver than the pirate? Because he fought, not for himself, but for the Cross.
— George Bernard Shaw
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
— George Eliot
Love taken seriously is a radical outlook, a major departure from the psychological orientation that rules the world. It is threatening not because it is a small idea, but because it is so huge.
— Marianne Williamson
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
— Charles Kettering
God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.
— Scot McKnight
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn't borrow or pawn.
— Ayn Rand
That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.
— Ayn Rand
Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention.
— Stephen Hawking
The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.
— Stephen Jay Gould