Ideas Quotes and Sayings

An idea whose time has come was waiting there all along.
Carrie Latet

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.
Thomas F. Kennedy

I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.
Jhonen Vasquez

That’s what business is like. If someone comes to you and says they’ve got a great idea, you’ve got to come back at them and say: “That’s a great idea, but my idea to promote it is even better”.
Max Markson

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry Miller

Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated
Isaiah Berlin

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
Albert Einstein, Aristotle

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
Georges Bizet

I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.
Napoleon Hill

I never like to say that I ‘believe’ anything. There are no ideas worth believing.
Jacques Chirac

It’s like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.
Ville Valo

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
Miguel de Unamuno

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
Frederick Soddy

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete… Awaken your creative sensitivities!
Jack Palance

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke

We like to test things… no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
Henry Block

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
Hannah Arendt

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences.
George Weigel

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran

The simple joy of taking an idea into one’s own hands and giving it proper form, that’s exciting.
George Nelson

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill