ideas Quotes

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.