Quotes about Ideas

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, he answered.

Edwards believed his Biblical theology was, in fact, a true rendering of reality, and therefore could stand confidently in the marketplace of philosophical ideas and give an account of itself--which in his hands it would do.

The Bible-oriented preacher wants the congregation to know that his words, if they have any abiding worth, are in accord with God's words. He wants this to be obvious to them. That is part of his humility and his authority. Therefore, he constantly tries to show the people that his ideas are coming from the Bible. He is hesitant to go too far toward points that are not demonstrable from the Bible.

It is far too easy to be critical. It is far harder to have a better idea.

A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

Anybody can have ideas—the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.