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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.
James R. Smith
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.
Bernard Baruch
Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
Samuel Butler
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.
Robert H. Schuller
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
Ray D. Everson
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sydney J. Harris
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Morris L. Ernst
We have some great ideas, but most of 'em come too late to do us any good.
Will Rogers
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.
Francis Bacon
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.
Percy Wynham Lewis
Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.
William James, The Varieties of
The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.
Richard Rorty
If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
Percy Sutton
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
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.
The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.
Milton Avery
Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.
Thomas F. Kennedy
You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.
Irvine Robbins
