Ideas Quotes and Sayings


It is useless to send armies against ideas.
George Brandes

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Thomas Mann

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Alva Edison

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Ketterin

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. Mencken

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
Steven Callahan

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
Robert Lee Frost

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

Ideas are fatal to caste.
Edward M. Forster

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.
Barry Jones

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
Edward de Bono

Good ideas will always get funded, so that’s not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
Jeff Bezos

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein

I’m not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
Ken Mason

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Believe in something larger than yourself. . . . Get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush

One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Jean Rostand

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody’s castle-roof perforated.
Sarah Bernhardt

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
James Gunn

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh

The best ideas are common property.
Seneca

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H L Mencken

A good idea, only be sure to make a copy of everything before getting rid of it.
Samuel Goldwyn

We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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