Ideas Quotes and Sayings

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O’Hara

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Julie Cameron

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
Mark Twain

There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
Woodrow Wilson

An idea discovered is much better possessed.
Young

Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.
Donatella Versace

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Anatole France

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!
Les Brown

Don’t be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don’t follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it’s enough.
Charles F. Kettering

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles Eames

If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
Percy Sutton

What we needed was an avalanche of ideas that kept us separate from the competition.
Anita Roddick

There aren’t that many original ideas out there.
Steve Wynn

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Mark Amidon

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
Henri Poincare

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sidney J. Harris

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Jacques Maritain

Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.
Lynn Abbey

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself
Rollo May

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Paul Valery

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
Richard Saunders

Ideas…They have the power.
Napolean Hill

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin