Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
~By Francis Wright ~
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
~By Larry Wachowski ~
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
~By Marie Curie ~
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
~By David Hume ~
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
~By Karl Marx ~
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
~By Claude M. Bristol ~
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.
~By Dave Brubeck ~
I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.
~By Jaime Hernandez ~
Cartoons have always been an enjoyment to me... a relaxation... I get my ideas from everyday events.
~By Matthew Ashford ~
I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions.
~By Tina Brown ~
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
~By Edith Wharton ~
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.
~By Julian Barbour ~
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had ideas about morality and proper use of natural resources that were radically different from ours, as the Europeans were from the American Indians.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.
~By Christo ~
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.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
~By Mason Cooley ~
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
~By Robertson Davies ~
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
~By Walter Scott ~
There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
~By Howard Dean ~
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
~By Bob Dylan ~
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
~By Louis Aragon ~
Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.
~By Dennis Weaver ~
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
~By Robert Bork ~
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
~By Thom Mayne ~
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
~By John Schlesinger ~
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough.
~By Dave Navarro ~
You get ideas from other people all the time.
~By Jared Harris ~
Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
~By Arthur E. Waite ~
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?
~By Joseph Stalin ~
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
~By Walter Pater ~
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
~By Nigel Kneale ~
Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
~By Samuel Butler ~
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
~By Charlie Trotter ~
I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.
~By Jane Rule ~
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
~By Steve Jobs ~
Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
~By Bryn Terfel ~
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
~By Glenn Miller ~
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
~By Horst Koehler ~
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
~By Ed Miliband ~
True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
~By Willard Libby ~
Ideas control the world.
~By James A. Garfield ~
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
~By Daniel Smith ~
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
~By Vissarion Belinsky ~
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
~By William Hull ~
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
~By H. R. Giger ~
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
~By Stan Getz ~
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
~By John Maynard Keynes ~
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
~By Dale Carnegie ~
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.
~By David Axelrod ~
Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
~By Robert Byrd ~
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
~By Alfred Whitney Griswold ~
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~By John Steinbeck ~
In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?
~By Andrew McCarthy ~
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~By Charles Kettering ~
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.
~By Dave Sim ~
Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.
~By David Elliott ~
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.
~By Michael Giles ~
I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
~By Richard Adams ~
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.
~By Keith Emerson ~
Photography suits the temper of this age - of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.
~By Edward Weston ~
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ~
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
~By Karl Kraus ~
If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
~By Bill Wyman ~
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
~By David Brooks ~
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
~By Irvine Welsh ~
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
~By Paul Valery ~
Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.
~By Ajay Devgan ~
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