Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.

Dogen

22.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

24.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Maritain, Jacques

25.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

26.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O. Douglas

27.

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.

Kennedy, Thomas F.

29.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

30.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

Decter, Midge

31.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Wilson, Alexander

32.

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.

33.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

34.

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Trotsky, Leon

35.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Pauling, Linus

36.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

37.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

Saunders, Richard

38.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Harris, Sidney J.

39.

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.

40.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

41.

Everything begins with an idea.

Nightingale, Earl

42.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

The best ideas are common property.

Seneca

44.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

45.

It first appeared like a crazy idea. It turned out he had a great idea.

Munro, J. Richard

46.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

47.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

48.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

49.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Heilbrun, Carolyn

50.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.