Ideas Quotes

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Jonathan Edwards

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An idea to be suggestive must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

Wendell Phillips

For parlour use the vague generality is a lifesaver.

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.

If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

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.

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.

Great ideas are not charitable.

Henry de Montherlant

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.

George Santayana

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Brooks Atkinson

An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.

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.

Anonymous

There is no adequate defence except stupidity against the impact of a new idea.

Percy W. Bridgman

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas as distinguished from events are never unprecedented.

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.

A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas.

A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The 4 "I" in Simple Ideas: Involve individuals; Inspire crowds; Instil creativity; Innovate humanity !

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

Agatha Christie

There are enough ideas, images, symbols, and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It's a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery, though. Sometimes you get in and it starts right up. Other times, especially if it has been sitting idle for awhile, you turn the key and nothing happens.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Ideas are not immaculately conceived.

You Believe what you see, You Perceive what you do.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.

Ingrid

An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; it has made all monstrous and widely pervading persecutions. In this degree it was not the people who cared who ever persecuted; the people who cared were not sufficiently numerous. It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack. There have come some persecutions out of the pain of a passionate certainty; but these produced, not bigotry, but fanaticism--a very different and a somewhat admirable thing. Bigotry in the main has always been the pervading omnipotence of those who do not care crushing out those who care in darkness and blood.

G.K. Chesterton

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

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

Mehmet Murat ildan

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred

I've just had a really evil idea.""My favourite kind

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.

Shirley Jackson

One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?

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