Quotes about Idea
What we call God's justice is only man's idea of what he would do if he were God.
— Elbert Hubbard
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
Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
— Oscar Wilde
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
— Cicero
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
— Will Rogers
Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
— William James
When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God's idea of God, and God's idea of God is Christ.
— E Stanley Jones