Ideas Quotes

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

David H. Comins

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

Napoleon Hill

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

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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

Richard Adams

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

William Lippmann

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

C. D. Jackson

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Spinoza

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Kelle

There are only two kinds of scholars those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartie

Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - The best remedy against it is to tread on it.

S? ren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838

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

Mohandas Ghandi

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

George Crane

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

John Haldane

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

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

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Alfred Victor Vigny

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

Gaston Bachelard

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Henry Ward Beeche

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

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

John Maynard Keynes

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mary Beth Danielson

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

David Ogilvie

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

William Golding, Lord of The Flies

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca, Epistles

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Miriam Beard

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

Chinese Prove

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

Georg Brandes

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self - Opinionated thinkers.

John Owen

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

Dr. Linus Pauling

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

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Julie Arabi

In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

Robert F. Goheen

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

Karl Kraus

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

Sextus Julius Frontinus