The key to every man is his thought.… He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

More quotations from Seneca

He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Whatever limits us, we call Fate.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.

More quotations tagged with “ideas”

All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.

—Samuel Goldwyn

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

—John Steinbeck

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History

11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.