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When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.

Quotes by Emile Zola

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

I was a baby when I began, but I knew exactly what I wanted to wear myself. I became a jewelry designer because I knew how to do something with a pencil and sketch my ideas.

Quotes by Elsa Peretti

My 'work' is about seeing not about ideas.

Quotes by Elliott Erwitt

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.

Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly

My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have...

Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

Quotes by Elmer Davis

Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to...

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation.

Quotes by Ellen Key

My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas,...

Quotes by Ellen Klages

I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.

Quotes by Elizabeth Reaser

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in...

Quotes by Elizabeth Hand

History provides a laboratory in which we see played out the actual, as well as the intended, consequences of ideas.

Quotes by Elizabeth Coleman

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

Quotes by Elizabeth Emken

I've got the conservative ideas for putting our country back on track.

Quotes by Elizabeth Emken

Certainly, Occupy Wall Street protesters have different ideas about the movement's mission. Many of the marchers I met even disagreed on the purpose of their trek - some thought it was about getting to Washington to protest the 'supercommittee'; others...

Quotes by Elizabeth Flock

I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.

Quotes by Eliza Doolittle

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Quotes by Eliot Spitzer

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these quotes suggest ideas come from a particular place?
One pushes back on that notion: "I do not believe that the best ideas come from Washington." It suggests good ideas can come from anywhere, not just centers of power. For more quotes questioning conventional wisdom like this, see Always quotes.
Is there a quote about free speech and access to ideas?
Yes — one connects the two directly: "free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and information. It includes limitless instant access to those ideas." It frames free speech as more than just the right to speak — also the right to reach information. For more on the value of good access to information, check out Good quotes.
Do any quotes discuss ideas as an escape from reality?
One addresses this directly, and pushes back on the assumption: "Escapism or nostalgia, for me, is not about having a terrible life and trying to get away via imaginary ideas or something." The speaker resists the idea that using imagination means running from a bad life.
Is there a quote about turning ideas into a creative project?
Yes — a personal, honest one: "My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it." It's a relatable look at how not every good idea leads to success. If you enjoy honest, relatable reflections like this, Like quotes has more.
What's the common theme across these idea-related quotes?
Together, they show ideas as something personal and often resistant to easy categorization — they can come from anywhere, deserve free access, aren't just escapism, and don't always pan out. For more first-person reflections like these, browse Me quotes.

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