Ideas Quotes

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

Source Unknown

It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.

Source Unknown

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Remy de Gourmont

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Josef Stalin, (attributed)

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or an idea, but is really some stronger material force.

George Santayana, Persons and Pl

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Napoleon Hill

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

Terry Pratchett

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.

Johann von Goethe

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Richard Bach

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

E. L. Simpson

One must not be afraid of new ideas, no matter the source. And we must never fear the truth, even when it pains us.

Al-Kindi

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

J.K. Rowling

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.

Steve Maraboli

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Neil Gaiman

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in 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, the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan

Great ideas come into the world as quietly as doves. Perhaps then , if we listen attentively we shall hear, among the uproar of empires and nations, the faint fluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Some will say this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history. Each and every one, on the foundations of their own suffering and joy builds for all.

Albert Camus

Many ideas are good for a limited time -- not forever.

Robert Townsend

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

Medgar Evers

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

Mark Twain