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| . . . being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care. | Gilbert Parker | Northern Lights |  |
| In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. | Aldous Huxley | Crome Yellow | |
| "Is it not? Is it not? Breadth of view, my dear Mr. Mac, is one of the essentials of our profession. The interplay of ideas and the oblique uses of knowledge are often of extraordinary interest." | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Valley of Fear | |
| "Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him." | E. M. Forster | Howards End | |
| "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | |
| . . . hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | |
| Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. | Mark Twain | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| "I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | |
| "And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?" | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | |
| His life has been spent in devotion to ideas. The passions of his brain have consumed the passions of his body. | Sherwood Anderson | The Triumph of the Egg (Seeds) | |
