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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
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Best Quotes about Ideas

1.
An idea is the only level which moves the world.
Corey, Arthur F.

2.
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
Hodges, Job E.

3.
A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.
Twain, Mark

4.
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Hugo, Victor

5.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

6.
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Horton, Doug

7.
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Marquis, Don

8.
You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
Everson, Ray D.

9.
Ideas too are a life and a world.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
Eliot, George

11.
Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.
Simpson, E. L.

12.
I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.
Mason, Ken

13.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz

14.
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken

15.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

16.
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.
Bachelard, Gaston

17.
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

18.
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
Bunche, Ralph

19.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

20.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
James, Henry

21.
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca

22.
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Canetti, Elias

23.
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Forster, Edward M.

24.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Edison, Thomas A.

25.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot

26.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Dimnet, Ernest

27.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

28.
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

29.
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one.
Chartier, Alain

32.
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O. Douglas

33.
If you pray for only one thing, .let it be for an idea.
Sutton, Percy

34.
Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one...
Mckeun, Rod

35.
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.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.
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

37.
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Bachelard, Gaston

38.
All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.
Paolo Giordano

39.
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas... that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
Foucault, Michel

40.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Trotsky, Leon

41.
There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

43.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Hubbard, Elbert

44.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck

46.
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
Berry, John

47.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
P. B. Medawar

48.
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Caird, Mona

49.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.
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.
Lewis, Wyndham


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