Ideas Have Consequences Quotes

#1. Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

George Weigel

#2. Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#3. Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.

George Weigel

#4. Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

Steve Allen

#5. I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

Shepard Fairey

#6. History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

Elizabeth Coleman

#7. Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

James Davison Hunter

#8. If you have a pair of contradictory ideas, discuss all the possible consequences with your peers.

Eraldo Banovac

#9. Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

Orrin Woodward

#10. All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

Albert Camus

#11. The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Donna Tartt

#12. The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.

Eric Weiner

#13. Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

Jonathan V. Last

#14. If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Charles Baxter

#15. Ideas do matter and do have consequences.

Nathaniel Branden

#16. Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.

Auliq Ice

#17. We find ourselves, one way or another, in the midst of a large-scale experiment to change the chemical construction of the stratosphere, even though we have no clear idea of what the biological or meteorological consequences may be.

Frank Sherwood Rowland

#18. I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#19. The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#20. Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which, for various reasons having to do with emotional safety, we have very strong ties of whose meaning and consequences in actuality we have no clear understanding.

Lionel Trilling

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

Eric Metaxas

#22. I have no idea on timing. It's easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

Warren Buffett