Quotes about Ideas

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code?

Liberals cannot win in the battle of ideas, so they resort to banning or suppressing ideas they don't like.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.

Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters might be obtained, who might be employed for a time; and where these were not to be found, the missionaries must have patience, and mingle with the people, till they have learned so much of their language as to be able to communicate their ideas to them in it.

The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine.

[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas: We have truth on our side!