Ideas Quotes and Sayings


An idea is the only level which moves the world.
Arthur F. Corey

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
Jean Genet

Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
B. R. Ambedkar

A new idea is like a child. It’s easier to conceive than to deliver.
Ted Koysis

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Great ideas are not charitable.
Henry de Montherlant

The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas.
Elbert Hubbard

What was once thought can never be unthought.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
William Lippmann

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas Alva Edison

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Emile Chartier

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.
Bern Williams

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill

My mind contains many good ideas, but it’s not always easy to squeeze one out.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Robert Half

What you need is an idea.
William P. Lear

Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.
Marshall Cook

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
Pablo Picasso

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
John Kane

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

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Doug Horton

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