Ideas Quotes and Sayings

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
Robert Byrne

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
Noam Chomsky

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

When I am…traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren Bennis

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
Helmut Newton

All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
Jean Goss

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.
Anonymous

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.
Marcel Duchamp

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure.
Fidel Castro

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
Bertrand Russell

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
Robert Collier

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of diversion and preference.
John Dewey

Exchange ideas frequently.
James Cash Penney

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one’s own moral aesthetic preferences.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
Emily Bronte

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
Victor Hugo

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Bill Moyers

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the ‘Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
Vince McMahon

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
Edward de Bono

We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
Li Ka Shing

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education
James McCosh

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
Paul Valery

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard M. Baruch

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right; they’re the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny.
Carl Sagan