Ideas Quotes
+3To 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
+1We are prisoners of ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Ideas…They have the power.
- Napolean Hill
+1The best ideas are common property.
- Seneca
+1An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
+1When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Johann Wolfgang
+1Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead
+1No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.
- Frederick G. Banting
+1The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Thomas A Edison
+1You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.
- Medgar Evers
+1There’s no good idea that can’t be improved on.
- Michael Eisner
+1It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
- Anatole France
+1Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.
- H G Wells
+1Crank ? a man with a new idea until it succeeds.
- Mark Twain
+1If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.
- Tom Stoppard
+1The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
- Linus Pauling
+1I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.
- Samuel Goldwyn
+1Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
- Ken Hakuta
+1A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
+1If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Albert Einstein
+1I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
- Anita Roddick
+1I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.
- Vince McMahon
+1One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
+1An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
+1Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
- Jim Hightower
+1He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
+1This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out.
- Hortense Calisher
+1I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
- John Erskine
+1A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Barnett Cocks
+1Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.
- Lama Surya Das
+1I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage
+1I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.
- Martha Stewart
+1The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- P. B. Medawar
+1The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
- William O. Douglas
+1The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.
- Alfred North Whitehead
+1Traditional thinking is all about “what is” Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
- Edward de Bono
+1For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned.
- George Santayana
+1Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken
