Ideas Quotes and Sayings

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
Camilo Jose Cela

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.
Cotvos

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale

Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
Harvey S. Firestone

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin

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

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas are the vegetation of the mental world. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another.
Macneile Dixon

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
Richard Bach

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don’t share ideas.
Dorothy Nevill

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Percy W. Bridgman

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde

Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
Hyman Rickover

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
E. M. Forster

It is high time that the idea of success be replaced by the idea of service.
Albert Einstein

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
E. L. Simpson

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea: by the combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
Francis A. Cartier

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
John Berry

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes