Quotes about Idea
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
The soul never thinks without a picture.
— Aristotle
One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. God upheaves the soul as well as the ocean.
— Victor Hugo
One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty, its is called remorse. God upheaves the soul as well as the ocean.
— Victor Hugo
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
— Victor Hugo
What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?
— Shane Claiborne
To see this we must learn that some have said that relation is not a reality, but only an idea. But this is plainly seen to be false from the very fact that things themselves have a mutual natural order and habitude.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
— Will Rogers
I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.
— Robert Morris
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.
— Myles Munroe