Quotes about ideas

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."

Aiken, Howard on ideas   

"Eureka! I've got it."

Archimedes on ideas
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"The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing."

Avery, Milton on ideas   

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

Bach, Richard on ideas
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"Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid."

Bachelard, Gaston on ideas   

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

Bachelard, Gaston on ideas   

"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."

Bacon, Francis on ideas
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"Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil."

Baruch, Bernard M. on ideas   

"We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -"

Beecher, Henry Ward on ideas   

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

Berry, John on ideas   

"We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first."

Block, Henry on ideas   

"It is the nature of thought to find its way into action."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on ideas   

"The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Bragg, Sir William on ideas   

"So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs."

Brande, Dorothea on ideas   

"It is useless to send armies against ideas."

Brandes, George on ideas   

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

Bridgman, P. W. on ideas   

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

Brown, Les on ideas
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"Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born."

Brown, Ron on ideas   

"If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person."

Bunche, Ralph on ideas   

"Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished."

Butler, Samuel on ideas   

"We are governed not by armies, but by ideas."

Caird, Mona on ideas   

"Nothing dies harder than a bad idea."

Cameron, Julie on ideas   

"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."

Canetti, Elias on ideas   

"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"

Carnegie, Dale on ideas
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"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."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on ideas   

"There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on ideas   

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one."

Chartier, Alain on ideas   

"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along."

Clarke, Arthur C. on ideas   

"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on ideas   

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"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first."

Comins, David H on ideas
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"Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!"

Conrad, Joseph on ideas   

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"An idea is the only level which moves the world."

Corey, Arthur F. on ideas   

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

Cotvos on ideas   

"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."

Decter, Midge on ideas   

"Ideas are the roots of creation."

Dimnet, Ernest on ideas   

"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ideas   

"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things."

Dogen on ideas
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"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on ideas
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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"To have a great idea, have a lot of them."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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