Ideas Quotes

97 quotations about Ideas
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison · Ideas
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
George Eliot · Ideas
We are prisoners of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Ideas
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Ideas
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Morris L. Ernst · Ideas
You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.
Ray D. Everson · Ideas
Ideas are fatal to caste.
Edward M. Forster · Ideas
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
Robert Frost · Ideas
Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield · Ideas
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset · Ideas
Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
Tobias S. Gibson · Ideas
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Arnold H. Glasgow · Ideas
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Ideas
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn · Ideas
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds
Remy De Gourmont · Ideas
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
Sidney J. Harris · Ideas
Ideas move fast when their time comes.
Carolyn Heilbrun · Ideas
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill · Ideas
Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
Job E. Hodges · Ideas
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes · Ideas
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes · Ideas
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes · Ideas
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
Doug Horton · Ideas
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard · Ideas
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo · Ideas

Authors on Ideas

Archimedes Milton Avery John Berry Christian Nevell Bovee Dorothea Brande George Brandes P. W. Bridgman Les Brown Ron Brown Ralph Bunche Mona Caird Julie Cameron Elias Canetti Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort Alain Chartier Samuel Taylor Coleridge David H Comins Arthur F. Corey Cotvos Ernest Dimnet