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262 quotesA new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.
Ideas
Ted Koysis
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Children
Karl Kraus
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Ideals and Idealism
Irving Layton
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What you need is an idea.
Ideas
William P. Lear
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Critics and Criticism
Fran Lebowitz
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Genius
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
Ideas
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Democracy
Abraham Lincoln
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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
Communication
Abraham Lincoln
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
Persuasion
Abraham Lincoln
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A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Cleverness
John A. Lincoln
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Reverie
John Locke
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Sorrow is the great idealizer.
Grief
James Russell Lowell
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
Ideals and Idealism
James Russell Lowell
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The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.
Ideas
David Lynch
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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
God
Andre Mairaux
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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.
Risk
Maxwell Maltz
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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Ideas
Thomas Mann
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Ideas
Jacques Maritain
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An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Ideas
Don Marquis
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Ideas
Don Marquis
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Politicians and Politics
Don Marquis
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I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
Ideas
Ken Mason
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Beauty
W. Somerset Maugham
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The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Ideas
Sir Peter Medawar
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun