Ideas Quotes

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!

Orison Swett Marden

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.

Andre Gide

Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way of living?

Steve Maraboli

Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Hamming

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Arnold Glasgow

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.

Samuel Butler

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James A. Michener

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Thomas Carlyle

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

William Lippmann

Everything worthwhile is a good idea, but did you ever notice there is more bad ideas that will work than there is good ones?

Will Rogers

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

Steve Maraboli

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ernest Dimnet

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Marianne Williamson

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Albert Einstein

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

John Berry