Ideas Quotes and Sayings

Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James

My ideas are my whores.
Denis Diderot

Never ask who’s right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.
Peter Drucker

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.
Carl Schurz

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson

Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Steve Jobs

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs

By not caring too much about what people think, I’m able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton

No ideas and the ability to express them - that’s a journalist.
Karl Kraus

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm.. in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
Brian Tracy

If you close your eyes it is amazing what you and your brain on their own can come up with to amuse yourself and new ideas.
Edward Gorey

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don’t see them.
Jay Abraham

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Joseph Conrad

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie

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

Ideas too are a life and a world.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.
Franz Werfel

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion and the act Falls the Shadow.
T S Eliot

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
Mortimer Adler

Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
Magic Johnson

The difference between people and ideas is… only superficial.
Richard Rorty

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
Aldous Huxley

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.
Samuel Butler

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Honore de Balzac

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
Gottfried Leibniz

If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our “dream life” now.
Tony Robbins