Ideas Quotes

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Robert Hutchins

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Bern Williams

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

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

William Lippmann

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

Pablo Picasso

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

David H. Comins

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

Albert Einstein

Ideas control the world.

James Abram Garfield

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

Karl Poppe

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Francis A. Carte

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him - - But we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration - - we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.

Albert E. Cliffe

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Stanislaus J. Lec

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.

William Shakespeare

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Laurence Sterne

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Kelle

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Goethe

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

Mohandas Ghandi

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Mrs. Stowe

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long - Established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Henry Besseme

Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.

Matthew Arnold

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Edward De Bono

Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official - - Not to say arbitrary - - In their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.

William Adams

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

H. L. Mencken

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Napoleon Hill

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

C. D. Jackson

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Thomas Mann

Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003