Quote: The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular. Author: John Williamson
Quote: When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce. Author: Marianne Williamson 1952-, American Author, Lecturer on Spirituality
Quote: Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown. Author: Alexander Wilson
Quote: An idea discovered is much better possessed. Author: Young
Quote: Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Author: Howard Aiken 1900-1973, American Inventor
Quote: Eureka! I've got it. Author: Archimedes c. 287-12212 BC, Greek Mathematician
Quote: The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. Author: Milton Avery 1893-1965, American Painter
Quote: An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. Author: Richard Bach 1936-, American Author
Quote: 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. Author: Gaston Bachelard 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Quote: Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Author: Gaston Bachelard 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Quote: 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. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: 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. Author: Bernard M. Baruch 1870-1965, American Financier
Quote: We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. - Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. Author: John Berry
Quote: We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. Author: Henry Block American Businessman, Founder of H&R Block
Quote: It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. Author: Sir William Bragg 1862-1942-, Australian Physicist, 1915 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
Quote: So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs. Author: Dorothea Brande American Success Writer
Quote: It is useless to send armies against ideas. Author: George Brandes 1842-1927, Swedish Author
Quote: There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. Author: P. W. Bridgman 1882-1961, American Professor, Philosopher
Quote: Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born. Author: Ron Brown Secretary of Commerce
Quote: If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. Author: Ralph Bunche
Quote: Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: We are governed not by armies, but by ideas. Author: Mona Caird
Quote: Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. Author: Julie Cameron American Author of ''The Artist's Way''
Quote: It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. Author: Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: 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? Author: Dale Carnegie 1888-1955, American Author, Trainer
Quote: 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. Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright
Quote: There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools. Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright
Quote: Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one. Author: Alain Chartier c.1385-c.1435, French Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Arthur C. Clarke 1917-, British Science Fiction Writer
Quote: The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. Author: David H Comins
Quote: 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! Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
Quote: An idea is the only level which moves the world. Author: Arthur F. Corey
Quote: Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person. Author: Cotvos
Quote: Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable. Author: Midge Decter 1927-, American Author, Editor, Social Critic
Quote: Ideas are the roots of creation. Author: Ernest Dimnet 1866-1954, French Clergyman
Quote: He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: 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. Author: Dogen
Quote: Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. Author: Fyodor Dostoevski 1821-1881, Russian Novelist
Quote: Great ideas originate in the muscles. Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Quote: The value of an idea lies in the using of it. Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Quote: To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Author: Thomas A. Edison 1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE
Quote: They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. -- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: We are prisoners of ideas. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. Author: Morris L. Ernst 1888-18?, American Lawyer, Statesman, Author
Quote: You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them. Author: Ray D. Everson
Quote: Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Author: Charles Fillmore American Co-founder of Unity School of Christianity
Quote: It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are. Author: Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-, British Author
Quote: Ideas are fatal to caste. Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than ''politicians'' think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think. Author: Michel Foucault 1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. Author: Robert Frost 1875-1963, American Poet
Quote: Ideas control the world. Author: James A. Garfield 1831-1881, Twentieth President of the USA
Quote: An idea is a putting truth in check-mate. Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people. Author: Tobias S. Gibson
Quote: It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. Author: Andre Gide 1869-1951, French Author
Quote: Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. Author: Arnold H. Glasgow
Quote: Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. Author: Samuel Goldwyn 1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM
Quote: Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds Author: Remy De Gourmont 1858-1915, French Novelist, Philosopher, Poet, Playwright
Quote: Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself. Author: Bob Grinde
Quote: Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. Author: Sidney J. Harris 1917-, American Journalist
Quote: Ideas move fast when their time comes. Author: Carolyn Heilbrun 1926-, American Author, Educator
Quote: All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Ideas... they have the power… Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first. Author: Job E. Hodges
Quote: A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. Author: Doug Horton
Quote: The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. Author: C. O. Jackson
Quote: Ideas are, in truth, force. Author: Henry James 1843-1916, American Author
Quote: A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. Author: Barry Jones
Quote: The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. Author: John Kane
Quote: Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone. Author: Thomas F. Kennedy
Quote: If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. Author: Charles F. Kettering 1876-1958, American Engineer, Inventor
Quote: It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. Author: John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, British Economist
Quote: The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. Author: John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, British Economist
Quote: The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Author: John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, British Economist
Quote: Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver. Author: Ted Koysis
Quote: When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge. Author: Tuli Kupferberg
Quote: What you need is an idea. Author: William P. Lear
Quote: The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government. Author: Wyndham Lewis 1882-1957, British Author, Painter
Quote: Ideas too are a life and a world. Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. Author: William Lippmann
Quote: The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead. Author: David Lynch 1946-, American Director, Screenwriter
Quote: If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Author: Thomas Mann 1875-1955, German Author, Critic
Quote: But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act! Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. Author: Jacques Maritain 1882-1973, French Philosopher
Quote: An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Author: Don Marquis 1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas. Author: Ken Mason American Businessman, President of Quaker Oats
Quote: Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one... Author: Rod Mckeun
Quote: The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. Author: Sir Peter Medawar 1915-1987, British Immunologist
Quote: Long is the road from conception to completion. Author: MoliFre 1622-1673, French Playwright
Quote: In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off. Author: Alfred A. Montapert American Author
Quote: It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea. Author: J. Richard Munro American Businessman, CEO of Time, Inc.
Quote: The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting. Author: George Nelson
Quote: Never hesitate to steal a good idea. Author: Al Neuharth American publisher, Founder, USA Today
Quote: Little words hurt big ideas. Author: Howard W. Newton
Quote: If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune. Author: Griff Niblack
Quote: Everything begins with an idea. Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. Author: Roger Von Oech
Quote: The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Author: Linus Pauling 1901-1994, American Chemist, 2 Time Nobel Winner
Quote: Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines. Author: A. Owen Penny
Quote: A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission. Author: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 1844-1911, American Writer
Quote: An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience. Author: Hyman G. Rickover 1900-1986, Naval Engineering Officer
Quote: Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. Author: Antoine Rivarol 1753-1801, French Journalist, Epigrammatist
Quote: You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well. Author: Irvine Robbins American Businessman, Co-Founder of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream
Quote: Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: Labor gives birth to ideas. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial. Author: Richard Rorty 1931-, American Philosopher
Quote: To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. Author: Jean Rostand 1894-1977, French Biologist, Writer
Quote: A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. Author: Richard Saunders
Quote: The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed. Author: Robert H. Schuller 1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader
Quote: I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. Author: E. L. Simpson
Quote: There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. Author: James R. Smith
Quote: If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea. Author: Percy Sutton American Businessman, President of Inner City Broadcasting
Quote: Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever. Author: Robert Townsend American Businessman, President of Avis
Quote: Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. Author: Leon Trotsky 1879-1940, Russian Revolutionary
Quote: A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Ideas won't work unless you do. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. Author: John H. Vincent
Quote: Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher