Quotes about Idea
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
— JM Coetzee
The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself.
— Amos Oz
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
— Zachary Taylor
A belief is not just an idea that you possess; it is an idea that possesses you.
— John Maxwell
In this case, the story that we had accepted, like suckers, was the idea that fascism and Nazism are inherently "right wing.
— Dinesh D'Souza
I went there to try to get my head around this idea, this idea that the problem in the universe lives within me. I can't think of anything more progressive than the embrace of this fundamental idea.
— Donald Miller
Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.
— Lydia Millet
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
— JM Coetzee
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.
— Florence Nightingale
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
Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
— Cicero
An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
— Charles Dickens