Ideas Quotes

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

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

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.

A handsome parson is fit for nothing but ti put ideas into the young woman's heads.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

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

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

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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.

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