{"id":5464,"date":"2018-10-08T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:19:30","slug":"quotes-about-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/quotes-about-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes about Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ideas.jpg\" alt=\"Quotes about Ideas\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ideas.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ideas-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ideas-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations. ~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Invisible%20Man\">The Invisible Man<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=H.%20G.%20Wells&amp;page=1\">H. G. Wells<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. ~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=East%20of%20Eden\">East of Eden<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=John%20Steinbeck&amp;page=1\">John Steinbeck<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor&#8217;s pocket? No, it&#8217;s not as easy as that. If that were all, I&#8217;d say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren&#8217;t. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. That presupposes the ability to think. Thinking is something one doesn&#8217;t borrow or pawn.&#8221; ~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Fountainhead\">The Fountainhead<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Ayn%20Rand&amp;page=1\">Ayn Rand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. ~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Crome%20Yellow\">Crome Yellow<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Aldous%20Huxley&amp;page=1\">Aldous Huxley<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being a man of very few ideas, he cherished those he had with an exaggerated care. ~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Northern%20Lights\">Northern Lights<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Gilbert%20Parker&amp;page=1\">Gilbert Parker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine. ~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=A%20Connecticut%20Yankee%20in%20King%20Arthur%27s%20Court\">A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Mark%20Twain&amp;page=1\">Mark Twain<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Ideas\">More Quotes About Ideas<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 75%;\">Original Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/HfR0W6HW_Cw?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Iby<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/ideas?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes from literature about ideas including: In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. ~\u00a0Crome Yellow\u00a0by\u00a0Aldous Huxley<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[739,1234,231,1233,803,450,326,797,804,137,449,755,841,936],"class_list":["post-5464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-ayn-rand","tag-crome-yellow","tag-east-of-eden","tag-gilbert-parker","tag-h-g-wells","tag-ideas-quotes","tag-john-steinbeck","tag-mark-twain","tag-northern-lights","tag-the-fountainhead","tag-the-invisible-man","tag-topic1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}