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- A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
- William Lippmann
- It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
- Klemens Von Metternich
- A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
- Charles Fillmore
- There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
- Francis A. Carter
- False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
- There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the other are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; and men's own rigtheousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make rigtheousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.
- Jonathan Edwards
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