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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"

"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."

"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."

"An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!"

"Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!"

"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"

"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
Explore more quotes by Sydney Smith

"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
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