Ideas Quotes

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Abraham Lincoln

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

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

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

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

Linus Pauling

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

Thomas Mann

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

Dr. Linus Pauling

From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange 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 people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Helen Kelle

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.

Reed Markham, Author, Effective Speechwriting

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

Napoleon Hill

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

Bill Bernbach

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

E. M. Cioran

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

Pearl Bailey

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)

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

The test of a first - Rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

F Scott

We are prisoners of ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Goethe

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Hortense Calishe

The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - A trial of spiritual resolve the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

At least two - Thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

Aldous Huxley

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

Klemens Von Metternich

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca, Epistles

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

Karl Poppe

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Bruce Lee

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

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

Emile Chartie