Idea
The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
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Idea Quotations
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
Buddha
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou
Idea Translations
idea in Afrikaans is idee, opvatting
idea in Dutch is idee, benul, begrip, denkbeeld
idea in Finnish is aate
idea in German is Idee, Begriff, Meinung, Plan, Idee
idea in Italian is nozione, idea, idea, pensiero
idea in Latin is informatio
idea in Norwegian is tanke, hensikt, ide
idea in Spanish is concepto, idea
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