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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
Albert Einstein
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.”
Neil Gaiman
“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
C.S. Lewis
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?”
Joseph Stalin
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
Swami Vivekananda
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Buddha