Ideas Quotes

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

• College isn't the place to go for ideas.

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

• There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

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

• If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

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

• So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

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

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

• There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

• One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

• Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

• If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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