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Sentences starting with ideas

Ideas rule the world, and never was there a more signal instance of this triumph of an idea than here. [7]
Ideas require time to develop, to seize the imagination of masses. [9]

Sentences ending with ideas

In man, however, when cultivated, the sense of beauty is manifestly a far more complex feeling, and is associated with various intellectual ideas. [1]
In his philosophy, What Is Man?, and now and again in his other writings, we find Mark Twain giving small credit to the human mind as an originator of ideas. [5]
Slow as he was, however, the stout Scotsman had more than once proved himself a man of rare merit according to Hume's ideas. [11]
Both of the two great parties, the Republican and the Democratic, in order to make a show of keeping abreast of the times, have merely patched their platforms with the new ideas. [9]
Now, I appeal to you if it wouldn't be disastrous to fall in love with a man of such ideas. [9]
He was trying to see his way through a sudden confusion of ideas. [11]
Is there nothing, then, in the exchange of ideas? [4]
The more obscure their theories, the more were they overloaded with image and metaphor; all simplicity of statement was lost, and yet the disputants prided themselves on the brilliancy of their language and the wealth of their ideas. [10]
He dated from the time when there were no schools at all, and he lived in that placid world which is without information and ideas. [4]
He was examining the plan, evidently engrossed in his own ideas. [2]

Short sentences using ideas

We've got the same ideas. [11]
My ideas were lofty. [5]
He did not lack ideas. [9]
General ideas are essences. [6]
Have you had any ideas? [10]
Moral ideas? [4]

Sentences containing ideas two or more times

We must take care not to confound this frequent difficulty of transmission of our ideas with want of ideas. [6]

More example sentences with the word ideas in them

The narrator's expressions would only be intelligible to a select few, and, I should have done my Margery injustice, had I left the ideas and descriptions, whose meaning I thoroughly understood, in the clumsy form she had given them. [10]
These reasons he would have given to Nic Lavilette, but other ulterior and malicious ideas were in his mind. [11]
When you parted with me you had no such ideas in your mind. [7]
He was struck with her conventional delicacy and honour on one side, and the limitation of her ideas on the other. [11]
The rapidity with which ideas grow old in our memories is in a direct ratio to the squares of their importance. [6]
Some, however, questioned whether it was not the work of a new hand, who wrote, not from experience, but from his or her ideas of the condition to which a story-teller, a novelist, must in all probability be sooner or later reduced. [6]
A time came when the occurrence appeared to me in the light of prescience, but that was when I began to understand that all ideas, all reason and philosophy, are the result of outer impression. [11]
She was definite when she claimed both the language and the ideas of the book. [5]
The waiter's eyes were sharp and he had his own ideas about this unprecedented liberality. [10]
The dull speaker wearies it and sends it far away in idle dreams; the bright speaker throws out stimulating ideas which it goes chasing after and is at once unconscious of him and his talk. [5]
And even if we had the disposition to name them, in order to fill up a gap when we were short of ideas and arguments, our magazines would not allow us to do it, because they think that such words sully their pages. [5]
If the aim was the dissemination of ideas, the printing press could have accomplished that much better than warfare. [2]
But now she was strongly under the spell of the new ideas hovering like shining, gossamer spirits just beyond her reach, that she sought to grasp and correlate. [9]
I said there was property in ideas before Queen Anne's time; they had perpetual copyright. [5]
Fulkerson said it was not often the colonel found such a good listener; generally nobody listened but Mrs. Leighton, who thought his ideas were shocking, but honored him for holding them so conscientiously. [8]
The society mind was never before so hospitable to new ideas and new sensations. [4]
And when he was awake, his efforts to communicate the dawning ideas of the queer world into which he had come were a never-failing delight. [4]
It was a very wise and a very prudent course which was taken by Simonides, when he was asked by his imperial master to give him his ideas about the Deity. [6]
I have said, very many times, in Judge Douglas's hearing, that no man believed more than I in the principle of self-government; that it lies at the bottom of all my ideas of just government, from beginning to end. [7]
But as the very essence of genius is truthfulness, contact with realities, (which are always ideas behind shows of form or language,) nothing is so contemptible as falsehood and pretence in its eyes. [6]
But gentlemen, let us beware how we allow mere human testimony, human ingenuity in argument and human ideas of equity, to influence us at a moment so solemn as this. [5]
I soon found, too, that he had no ideas whatever on the value of discretion, and it was only by repeated threats of absolute failure that I prevented our secret tactics from becoming the property of his sporting fraternity and of the town. [9]
It would be too much to say that some notion of the "equality of men" did not underlie the socialistic and communistic ideas which prevailed from time to time in the ancient world, and broke out with volcanic violence in the Grecian and Roman communities. [4]
Your ideas are too large for me there. [4]
I will try to write for the paper occasionally, but I fear my letters will be very uninteresting, for this incessant night-work dulls one's ideas amazingly. [5]
It is hard to understand how she has learned to deal with abstract ideas, and so far to supplement the blanks left by the senses of sight and hearing that one would hardly think of her as wanting in any human faculty. [6]
He cut away to the core of a matter, and having simple, fixed ideas, he was able to focus the talk, which had begun with hunting stories, and ended with the morality of duelling. [11]
I was glad to take her to Quebec, for I guessed she would get ideas, and it didn't strike me that she would be out of place. [11]
It is enough to stun and scare anybody, to have a hot thought come crashing into his brain, and ploughing up those parallel ruts where the wagon trains of common ideas were jogging along in their regular sequences of association. [6]
I must try to reduce my ideas of Palestine to a more reasonable shape. [5]
It expects rather to record a continually perfected machinery, a life in which not only speech but ideas are brought into rule. [4]
Her mind, sensitive to new ideas, had been keenly stimulated as she listened to Siddons, who began patiently to dwell once more on the ill effect of the conditions he had discovered on the welfare of the entire community. [9]
I am pleased to find a French critic of M. Flaubert expressing ideas with which many of my own entirely coincide. [6]
He tempted her to express her opinion on all points, and he laughed so amiably at the boldness and humorous vigor of her ideas that she was delighted with him. [8]
Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? [5]
It takes time to change our ideas, to learn to see things as they are. [9]
If you want to catch mice you must waste bacon, and if we are to tempt men into a snare we must know what their notions and ideas are, and begin by endeavoring to confuse them. [10]
If he happens to be a cabbage, in Heaven's name don't try to make a rose of him, and do not disturb the vegetable maturing of his head by grafting ideas upon his stock. [4]
Tom always had to be "worked up" to participation in my ideas, but in the end he almost invariably succumbed. [9]
That is, according to American ideas, for you have everything in these two rooms. [4]
Ideas, at certain times, throng for admission into the world; and we are all familiar with the fact that the same important idea (never before revealed in all the ages) occurs to separate and widely distinct minds at about the same time. [4]
At the same time, the mood in which the best musical ideas came to him suddenly overpowered him. [10]
For the first time in their intercourse, ideas had come between them, Eda having developed a surprising self-assertion when her new convictions were attacked, a dogged loyalty to a scheme of salvation that Janet found neither inspiring nor convincing. [9]
I had not thought of it before, and it is absolutely at variance with any previous ideas I have held. [9]
What makes you think he won't take his ideas about labour from the old man? [9]
One and all, they were allies in a great fight, and the same hopes, ideas, and wishes fired them all. [10]
They know whether they are restless or contented, and what examples they set to the peoples who get their ideas of republican simplicity and virtue from the Americans who sojourn among them. [4]
I had all these ideas I gathered knocking about the world, and I gave them to Willis, of Philadelphia, to put together for me. [9]
Oh yes, when there are ideas to exchange. [4]
Only now and then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot unexpectedly through his mind. [2]
But we--we enlist them in the name of the loftiest ideas and warmest desires of the human heart, and, as the prize of victory, we show them the ancient faith with freedom of thought--the ancient loveliness of life. [10]
New ideas build their nests in young men's brains. [3]
Unity in multiplicity, the symbolism of nature, and others of his leading ideas appear in new phrases, not unwelcome, for they look fresh in every restatement. [6]
The insincerity of the sovereign's agreement with the ideas, events, and men of his day was evident in the reaction which appeared only too soon. [10]
As significant of the social mingling of elements which in the past never exchanged ideas or points of view I shall describe a week-end party at a large country house of Liberal complexion; on the Thames. [9]
The ideas of the Revolution and the general temper of the age produced Napoleon's power. [2]
It is in the political writings immediately preceding and following the Revolution --such as those of Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Franklin, Jefferson that the new birth of a nation of original force and ideas is declared. [4]
Owing partly to the old-fashioned ideas of Dr. Gilman, and partly to the conservatism of its vestry, the institutionalism of St. John's was by no means up to date. [9]
And when in the midst of his career, with such large ideas of public service and philanthropy, he was stricken down, he left to me, in the confidence of his love, all that fortune which is some day to be yours. [4]
It is against the ideas of the people of England, but it does our work in Jamaica as nothing else could. [11]
This intussusception of the ideas of inanimate objects, and their faithful storing away among the sentiments, are curiously prefigured in the material structure of the thinking centre itself. [6]
My ideas of the heroes of Polish liberty had been formed from Heinrich Heine's Noble Pole, and I met my companion with a certain feeling of distrust. [10]
He explained how the enterprise differed from others, and how he needed for its direction a man who combined general business experience and business ideas with a love for the thing and a natural aptness for it. [8]
This then was the Chapter Coffee-house, which, a century ago, was the resort of all the booksellers and publishers; and where the literary hacks, the critics, and even the wits, used to go in search of ideas or employment. [14]
After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it. [6]
They would admit, that though they could make other apes understand by cries some of their perceptions and simpler wants, the notion of expressing definite ideas by definite sounds had never crossed their minds. [1]
It is certain that the inhabitants of all these towns held very loose ideas on the subject of brigandage: the poor fellows, they used to say, only robbed because they were hungry, and they must live somehow. [4]
So it was that she seldom went to church at all; but it was not because of this that her ideas of right and wrong were quite individual and not conventional, as the tale of the matrimonial deserter will show. [11]
It is true that Jack had had other ideas when he was courting Edith Fletcher, and at moments, at any rate, different aspirations from any he had now. [4]
So if, as that gentleman said, a book does consist solely of ideas, that is the best argument in the world that it is property, and should not be under any limitation at all. [5]
He came into that fellow's one day with a plan for cutting up the eighty acres he'd kept into town lots; and he'd got it all plotted out so-well, and had so many practical ideas about it, that the fellow was astonished. [8]
They can't understand that all those feelings they prize so--all our feelings, all those ideas that seem so important to us, are unnecessary. [2]
I can almost tell, in set phrase, what they will say when they see Tabor, Nazareth, Jericho and Jerusalem--because I have the books they will "smouch" their ideas from. [5]
There Sir William talked of the future, asked what Gaston's ideas were, and questioned him as to his present affairs. [11]
Among men of talent there are plebeians as well as patricians; even genius, which is never vulgar, is sometimes unable to hide the vulgarity of the aims and ideas which it clothes with beauty without concealing their essential nature. [4]
And I'm not sure but the church would suit your retrograde ideas. [4]
But Napoleon's power suppressed the ideas of the Revolution and the general temper of the age. [2]
I do not suppose that Margaret formulated any of these ideas in words. [4]
I am not such a hard-souled being as to apply this to the neglected poor, who have had no chance to fill their heads with wholesome ideas, and to be taught the lesson of self-government. [6]
Those ideas were stolen from me. [2]
Monsieur Philippe de St. Gre is a remarkable man, with certain vigorous ideas not in accordance with the customs of his neighbors. [9]
As she did so, however, the smell of a clover field, which is as honey, came stealing through the room, and all at once a strange association of ideas flashed into her brain. [11]
We notice not so much the novelty of the ideas to be found in this discourse on "The Method of Nature," as the pictorial beauty of their expression. [6]
But there were so many ideas and theories, and it was so hard to be natural and artificial at the same time. [4]
Nothing in the situation tallied with Ranulph's ideas of Guida and his knowledge of life. [11]
Our faces are set toward strange worlds presently to rise out of the sea and take on form and colour and substance--worlds of new aspirations, of new ideas and new values. [9]
Beautiful are those sentences out of James Martineau's sermons; some of them gems most pure and genuine; ideas deeply conceived, finely expressed. [14]
His ideas were seldom practical, his nature was yielding and fickle. [5]
A remark which seems to contradict a universally current opinion is not generally to be taken "neat," but watered with the ideas of common-sense and commonplace people. [6]
This sort of scholarship, of widely apprehending intellectual activity, keeping step with modern ideas so far as they are historically grounded, is of the first importance. [4]
The world is ruled by ideas, by abstract thought. [4]
This series of romances will not only have introduced the reader to a knowledge of the history of manners and culture in Egypt, but will have facilitated his comprehension of certain dominant ideas which stirred the mind of the Ancients. [10]
But it did ring there, and the real value of that smart tournament of ideas was partially lost to me. [11]
He had a rich abundance of idle time, but it never hung heavy on his hands, for he interested himself in every new thing that was born into the universe of ideas, and studied it, and experimented upon it at his house. [5]
It may be remarked, as aiding this impression, that exaggerated ideas are entertained as to the dangerous effects this congealed food may produce on persons not in the most robust health. [6]
There wasn't anything really against the fellow, anyway; he was a first-rate man, and he did his duty every time; only he'd got some of those ideas into his head, and they turned it. [8]
And now we're ready to build, and haven't any ideas at all! [9]
I have very rarely, however, found such a coincidence in ideas or expression as would be enough to justify an accusation of unconscious plagiarism,--conscious plagiarism is not my particular failing. [6]
A hundred ideas ran back and forth. [11]
What could have put those strange ideas in her head? [5]

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