Ideas Quotes and Sayings


Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle

It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
Alan Alda

It doesn’t matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
Hortense Calisher

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties
Harriet Martineau

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas. If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
Robert Schuller

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.
Mandell Creighton

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There’s nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
Larry Flynt

I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
Sir Frederick G. Banting

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams

Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shall hear, among the uproar of empires and nations, the faint fluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Each and every one, on the foundations of their own suffering and joy builds for all.
Albert Camus

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Robert Frost

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
Marcel Proust

We are opposed to support for any ideas pursuing a revolutionary, forcible change in the current system.
Viktor Chernomyrdin

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves.
Mignon McLaughlin

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
Benjamin Rush

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
Graham Chapman

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Most people think it’s all about the idea. It’s not. Everyone has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
Mark Cuban

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas.
Joe Grant

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.
A. Owen Penny

Don’t express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.
Baltasar Gracian

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind — Act!
Orison Swett Marden

Every idea I get I have to deny, that’s my way of testing it.
Alain, Histoire de mes pensées

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James

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