Quotes about ideas




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"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    Share


"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

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

Berry, John on ideas    Share

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

Block, Henry on ideas    Share

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell on ideas    Share

"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    Share

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

Brande, Dorothea on ideas    Share

"It is useless to send armies against ideas."

Brandes, George on ideas    Share

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

Bridgman, P. W. on ideas    Share

"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    Share

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

Bunche, Ralph on ideas    Share

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

Butler, Samuel on ideas    Share

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

Caird, Mona on ideas    Share

"Nothing dies harder than a bad idea."

Cameron, Julie on ideas    Share

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

Canetti, Elias on ideas    Share

"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    Share

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on ideas    Share

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

Chartier, Alain on ideas    Share

"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    Share

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on ideas    Share

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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    Share

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

Corey, Arthur F. on ideas    Share

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

Cotvos on ideas    Share

"Ideas are the roots of creation."

Dimnet, Ernest on ideas    Share

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

Disraeli, Benjamin on ideas    Share

"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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