Ideas Quotes and Sayings
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer
Believe in something larger than yourself. . . . Get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
Bertrand Russell
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
Jim Rohn
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.
Sigmund Freud
I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.
Amy Sedaris
All ideas grow out of other ideas.
Anish Kapoor
Ideas are more powerful than people.
Jim DeMint
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Alfred North Whitehead
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
It is high time that the idea of success be replaced by the idea of service.
Albert Einstein
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.
Walt Disney
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow.
T S Eliot
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
Robert Lee Frost
There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.
Woodrow Wilson
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H Glasgow
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H L Mencken
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
John Kenneth Galbraith
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
Martin Luther King
We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas…They have the power.
Napolean Hill
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
Alfred North Whitehead
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A Edison
Crank ? a man with a new idea until it succeeds.
Mark Twain
Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.
H G Wells
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Anatole France
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein