Ideas

Examples

• But Ferranti had good ideas, and he was no small man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The ideas of Kay, Wyatt and Hargreaves are said to have been anticipated in Italy. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The want of relation in the ideas breaks the relation of the impressions, and by such a separation prevents their mutual operation and influence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Simple perceptions or impressions and ideas are such as admit of no distinction nor separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He always told himself that and it was one of the last true ideas that was left to him that had ever been his own. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But in the seaport and markets mingled men of every known race, comparing their religious ideas and customs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Subsequent chapters will be devoted to making explicit the implications of the democratic ideas in education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He came and was put in my care for the purpose of a mutual exchange of ideas and for a report by me as to his competency in the matter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You think I'm an old woman whose ideas are bounded by Milton, and whose own crow is the whitest ever seen. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• So don't let me hear of these foolish morbid ideas. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As it is impossible to know what your ideas are of the _maniére convenable_, how can one answer this? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• For then you are dealing with living ideas: to search his text has its uses, but compared with the actual tradition of Marx it is the work of pedantry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But a Greek republic would have been dangerous to all monarchy in a Europe that fretted under the ideas of the Holy Alliance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The fancy runs from one end of the universe to the other in collecting those ideas, which belong to any subject. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Your brother will find my ideas of time and his own very different to-morrow. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Well, sir,' observed Venus, after clutching at his dusty hair, to brighten his ideas, 'let us put it another way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• What I have just said are Caroline's ideas of the pair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• While Mary is adjusting her ideas, he continued, let us return to Mr. Bingley. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To a softening down of your ideas of the incompatibility? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The double relation between the ideas and impressions subsists in both cases, and produces an easy transition from the one emotion to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Philosophers begin to be reconciled to the principle, that we have no idea of external substance, distinct from the ideas of particular qualities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• With the idea of uncleanness would come ideas of cleansing and of removing a curse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We are wont to dispute concerning the nature of mathematical points, but seldom concerning the nature of their ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The ideas and methods of Murdoch and Lebon soon took definite shape, and coal smoke was piped from its place of origin to distant points of consumption. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What farther proof can we desire for the double relation of impressions and ideas? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The really executive man is a man who ponders his ends, who makes his ideas of the results of his actions as clear and full as possible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Editor: Nell