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)