Quotes about Ideas

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.

It is not enough for the church to be active in the realm of ideas; it must move out to the arena of social action.

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty—the power of ideas.

But don't I have any freedom of speech?" "In your own house. Not in mine." "Don't I have a right to my own ideas?" "At your own expense. Not at mine." "Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?" "Not when I'm paying the bills.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Unless we are hopelessly bound by cynicism, we have to acknowledge that the United States has been remarkably and consistently generous in sharing what it has, whether material things or ideas.