Ideas Quotes

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Grant Wood

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Criss Jami

You Believe what you see, You Perceive what you do.

Zohaib Naseer

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Enrico Bombieri

It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.

Criss Jami

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

Belinda Jeffrey

At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.

Toba Beta

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind.

A.T. Baron

Mediocrity is Death.

Suleman Abdullah

Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.

Kate Horsley

Little words hurt big ideas.

Howard W. Newton

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Griff Niblack

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Henry James

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Jonah Lehrer

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Rivka Galchen

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Albert Camus

Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

Criss Jami

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development

Oscar Wilde

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine.

Roger Zelazny