Top 100 Ideas Wisdom Quotes
#1. There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. We are the prisoners of our thoughts; we are conformists. We fear new thoughts, new ideas, and new adventures.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.
David Ogilvy
#4. We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.
Maurice Levy
#5. Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?
Andrew Hargadon
#6. The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
C. G. Jung
#7. Ideas are the source of all things
Plato
#8. The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.
Jane Addams
#9. We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.
Sandra Chami Kassis
#10. People with evil ideas will think and do as they have learned, but those people with good ideas have the responsibility to show them the way of love, way of truth, and the way of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#11. I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.
Stephen Fry
#12. All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
Hyman Rickover
#13. Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Its mostly the ideas and concepts that we don't like at first, that eventually become the ideas and concepts we love.
Auliq Ice
#15. Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
Alister E. McGrath
#17. The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.
John P. Schuster
#19. ...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.
Patricia Engel
#21. How many people actually read the Bible and follow it? The truth is right there. How many people know what a marriage or family is all about? Everything starts with an idea, but getting people to act is different. You can't do something well if you don't know what it is or tried it for awhile.
Phil Mitchell
#23. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips
Cynthia Ozick
#24. We learn to create; we create to improve life and to teach. Creative ideas and creating are the essence of life.
Debasish Mridha
#25. The statement 'There is nothing more American than an Indian' happens to be a multidimensional paradox. Try and not say too many of those. That might open your mind to ideas that could cause sanity point loss.
Charles Slagle
#26. May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . .
King Davis
#27. Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
James Anthony Froude
#28. Good intentions might sound nice, but it's positive actions that matter.
Tim Fargo
#29. Do no depend on others' ideas or concepts because inside yourself is the Wisdom. For the Few.
Samael Aun Weor
#30. My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.
Konosuke Matsushita
#32. You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.
Stephen Levine
#34. Those who haven't visualise their dreams yet talk about people and things but those who already grasped their dreams talk about desires and ideas.
Euginia Herlihy
#35. God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.
Euginia Herlihy
#36. Our ideas are like boomerangs,when you throw them they are destined to come back.
Pradeep Chaswal
#37. The door of wisdom is always open for those who let their minds taste so many different ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom.
David Hume
#39. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#40. Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.
Andrei Sakharov
#41. Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us ... Like attracts like ... There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge..
James Van Praagh
#42. Education is a chemical reaction between knowledge and the mind; the byproducts are new thoughts, new ideas, new perceptions, and new feelings.
Debasish Mridha
#43. I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?
Daniel C. Dennett
#44. Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Seriously bad ideas (are) bad ideas which appeal to the prejudices of serious people.
Paul Krugman
#46. It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
Kate Horsley
#47. Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.
John Frederick Demartini
#48. If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
Mason Cooley
#49. There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Martin Luther
#50. The biblical preacher talks about the poor man's wisdom that saved a city but he was immediately forgotten. A poverty of ideas, contributions, uniqueness or influence, will overshadow the visibility of good potential. Keep those ideas flowing and you will not be forgotten.
Archibald Marwizi
#51. It's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes
all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom
Paul Auster
#52. This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network.
Steven Johnson
#54. During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.
Nicholas Kristof
#55. But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life
Percy Cerutty
#56. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#57. Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those ideas are inflexible and fail to respond to the changing times. They end up betraying the people who believed in them.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#59. We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#60. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#61. We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#62. Ongoing passion and growth in intimacy requires us to let go of our ideas of what we
"should" be doing and instead trust the wisdom inherent in our unguarded heart and uninhibited body.
David Deida
#63. I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don't know or haven't made the effort to understand.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#64. One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
Alister E. McGrath
#65. The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think.
Auliq Ice
#66. Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.
Frederick Lenz
#67. The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
Kathleen Norris
#69. Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain ... your thoughts ... your ideas ... engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.
Wes Adamson
#70. I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.
Norman Wisdom
#71. Thank you for all your guidance and wisdom, for setting the bar so much higher than I thought I could reach, and for giving me plenty of room to run with my own ideas. You've been the best teacher I've ever had.
Lisa Genova
#72. There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.
Eli Broad
#73. The store of wisdom does not consist
of hard coins which keep their shape
as they pass from hand to hand;
it consists of ideas and doctrines
whose meanings change
with the minds that entertain them.
John Plamenatz
#74. Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
Peter J. Carroll
#75. You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
John Updike
#76. Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
Confucius
#77. You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
Terence McKenna
#78. When you are non-judgmental, you are happy. Happiness depends on you, on your thoughts, on your attitude, on your ideas and vision, and nothing else.
Debasish Mridha
#79. You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward
Miguel Ruiz
#80. Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
Katherine Paterson
#81. Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
Andrew Thomas
#82. God wants us to constantly be increasing, to be rising to new heights. He wants to increase you in His wisdom and help you to make better decisions. God wants to increase you financially, by giving you promotions, fresh ideas, and creativity.
Joel Osteen
#83. Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#84. He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways ...
Terry Pratchett
#85. You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
Norman Vincent Peale
#86. If we probe what's behind our assumptions, what we find isn't knowledge or wisdom. It's fear. We're afraid that other people's ideas will make us look less than. We're afraid that if we make a change, a product won't come in on time.
Biz Stone
#87. My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
Jay Weatherill
#88. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
Alan Ball
#89. When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.
Deepak Chopra
#90. The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen)
Dannye Williamsen
#91. There are two excellent challengers against darkness in this universe: Powerful lights and great ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. Dreamers and thinkers believe in innovative ideas and they become the greatest students of all time.
Euginia Herlihy
#93. Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century.
Gavin John Adams
#94. I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy
Tim Minchin
#95. Great ideas and small consistent actions with love can change the world from above.
Debasish Mridha
#96. Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
Thomas Carlyle
#97. I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Norman Wisdom
#98. Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.
Neale Donald Walsch
#99. Is more unfair," as an English historian has well said, "than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present. Whatever may be said of morality, political wisdom is certainly ambulatory.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#100. Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.
Robert Ringer
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