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“Words, in their immediate Signification, are the sensible Signs of his Ideas who uses them.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.” William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“The ideas so far produced are insufficient for the interpretation of the dream.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
“Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Thus all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“The world is idea.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“The imagination has the command over all its ideas, and can join and mix and vary them, in all the ways possible.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods
“The idea is sign of things, and the image is sign of the idea, sign of a sign. But from the image I reconstruct, if not the body, the idea that others had of it.” Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“Everything you think you think because somebody promoted the ideas. Education—nothing but promotion.” Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones” John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so in fact.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“This, I think, I may at least say, that we should have a great many fewer disputes in the world, if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only; and not for things themselves.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Ah, good conversation—there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Even though I'm only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who's right and who's wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I'm more of a person than a child—I feel I'm...” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.” W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“which leads and drags on the world, is not locomotives, but ideas. Harness locomotives to ideas,—that is well done; but do not mistake the horse for the rider.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“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, Where do you get your ideas?
“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the...” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“If you're only sceptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.” Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
“It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“The whole visible world is only an imperceptible atom in the ample bosom of nature. No idea approaches it.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“You’re bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“Don't you consider it a stupidity characteristic of the human race that a man who has only one life should be willing to lose it for an idea?” André Malraux, Man's Fate
“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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