Ideas Quotes and Sayings

Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You’ve only to reach out and snatch one…
Rod Mckeun

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
Henry Ford

Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.
Owen Laughlin

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
William James

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Alfred North Whitehead

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Pearl S. Buck

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.
Robert Collier

If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.
Tom Stoppard

Ideas won’t keep: something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Mona Caird

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Leon Trotsky

You have to hatch ideas — and then hitch them.
Ray D. Everson

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Frank Lloyd Wright

If you steal ideas from one source, that’s plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that’s research.
Laurendo Almeida

The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
Milton Avery

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Francis Bacon

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle

Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
J Arthur Thomson

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred North Whitehead

There’s no good idea that can’t be improved on.
Michael Eisner

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.
Midge Decter

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Michael Crichton

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?
Will Rogers

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.
Neil Gaiman

Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield

An idea gets us interested, but a dream gets us excited.
David DeNotaris

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.
Anonymous