Ideas Quotes
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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. (Quote by - Carl Schurz)
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. (Quote by - Arnold H Glasgow)
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
Great ideas originate in the muscles (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. (Quote by - Sir Frederick G. Banting)
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. (Quote by - Hortense Calisher)
Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. (Quote by - H G Wells)
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all (Quote by - Murray Kempton)
All great ideas are dangerous. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. (Quote by - Miriam Beard)
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority (Quote by - Robert Altman)
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
An idea is salvation by imagination. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)
We are prisoners of ideas. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned (Quote by - George Santayana)
Believe in something larger than yourself. . . . Get involved in the big ideas of your time. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers (Quote by - Brooks Atkinson)
Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it (Quote by - Anonymous)
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. (Quote by - Robert Lee Frost)
The best ideas are common property. (Quote by - Seneca)
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. (Quote by - Aristotle)
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation (Quote by - William James)
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. (Quote by - Lee Iacocca)
The material universe exists only in the mind (Quote by - Jonathan Edwards)
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy. (Quote by - Jim Hightower)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. (Quote by - Sir Barnett Cocks)
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. (Quote by - Hector Berlioz)
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea (Quote by - Jules Renard)
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. (Quote by - F Scott Fitzgerald)
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. (Quote by - Randall Jarrell)
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. (Quote by - Howard Aiken)
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. (Quote by - J. B. S. Haldane)
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. (Quote by - Emile Chartier)
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. (Quote by - Anatole France)
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow. (Quote by - T S Eliot)
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. (Quote by - Martin Luther King)
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed (Quote by - Stanislaw Lec)
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
Crank ? a man with a new idea until it succeeds. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. Don't forget that, all of you who don't have them (Quote by - John Elliott)
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. (Quote by - J Arthur Thomson)
College isn't the place to go for ideas. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. (Quote by - William O. Douglas)
The value of an idea lies in the using of it. (Quote by - Thomas A Edison)
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. (Quote by - Goethe)
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. (Quote by - P. B. Medawar)
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it (Quote by - Prince Philip)
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. (Quote by - Ken Hakuta)
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. (Quote by - Hyman Rickover)
Ideas...They have the power. (Quote by - Napolean Hill)
Great ideas are not charitable (Quote by - Henry de Montherlant)
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. (Quote by - John Cage)
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea (Quote by - Percy W. Bridgman)
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
For parlour use, the vague generality is a lifesaver (Quote by - George Ade)
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. (Quote by - Aristotle)
If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research. (Quote by - Laurendo Almeida)
