Quotes about Ideas
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
— Thomas Jefferson
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
— James A. Garfield
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.
— Seth Godin
All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes.
— Carl Jung
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
— NT Wright
Progress is often just a good idea away.
— John Maxwell
These half-baked, right-in-the-middle-of-something-else new ideas lead to half-finished, abandoned projects that litter the landscape and zap morale.
— Jason Fried
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous. There are many animals, who, though far from being large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime, because they are considered as objects of terror. As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds.
— Edmund Burke
Our liberation comes through a person, not a system of ideas and principles. Everything we need for life and godliness ultimately comes through our knowledge of Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:3).
— Edward Welch