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!

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

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.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.