Idea Quotes

An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.

~ Ingrid

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those laws which govern inanimate bodies; but, although novel, this truth is none the less incontestable. To hold that the phenomena of life are entirely distinct from the general phenomena of nature is to commit a grave error, it is to oppose the continued progress of science.

~ François Magendie

Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!

~ Raheel Farooq

Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on.

~ Richie Norton

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

~ Jack Dorsey

An great building will never stand if you neglect the small bricks.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.

~ G.i. Gurdjieff

Your brain is like a plant. If you plant a seed in it, it will grow into a big idea.

~ Jane Kang

You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Tyler. His handsome, lion-eyed ravagement. His capacity for devotion. Which is so sexy. Why do so many gay men lack that? Why are they so distracted, so in love with the idea of more and more and then more, again?

~ Michael Cunningham

We are born dead, and moreover we have long ceased to be the sons of living fathers; and we become more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. Soon we shall invent a method of being born from an idea.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.

~ Markus Zusak

True education reveals self-potential, more than just sows ideas.

~ Toba Beta

You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try to make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

~ Bess Streeter Aldrich

Guilty?” George’s face betrayed his surprise. “Whatever for?” “That neither of your brothers ever offered for me.” Another thing she probably should not have said. But as it happened, Billie did think that Lady Manston felt this way. And when George’s expression slid from curiosity to something that might have been jealousy… well, Billie could not help but feel a little pleased. “So I think she’s trying to make it up to me,” she said gamely. “It’s not as if I was waiting for one of them to ask me, but I think she thinks I was, so now she wants to introduce me —” “Enough,” George practically barked. “I beg your pardon?” He cleared his throat. “Enough,” he said in a much more evenly tempered voice. “It’s ridiculous.” “That your mother feels this way?” “That she thinks introducing you to a pack of useless fops is a sensible idea.” Billie took a moment to enjoy this statement.

~ Julia Quinn

Filtering solar radiation with air pollution is a bad idea.

~ Steven Magee

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

~ Alan Moore

Kurdistan has a long and turbulent history. Today, it faces a future branching in directions that could lead it towards success or disaster, freedom or renewed oppression.

~ Davan Yahya Khalil

The truth that we hide is naked, the one that we flaunt is so well dressed!

~ Abhijit Kar Gupta

Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more ideas than the inexperienced, but appreciates more what he has and uses it better.

~ George Pólya

In order to create an idea... to become an idea, it is a necessity for you to believe that it is your own idea. The idea will grow to define your entire life. And when you die... you don't.

~ Lionel Suggs

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Ideas tell a lot about a person who generated them.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The whole idea of being here is to ask everything...

~ Deyth Banger

Productive writing begins from understanding the idea.

~ Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.

~ Alexander Graham Bell

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

~ Abhishek Ratna

Every successful venture is based on an unoriginal idea, beautifully executed.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

~ Fela Durotoye

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

~ Jeffrey Fry

Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it!

~ Syed Ather

The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development

~ Alfred North Whitehead

In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

~ Sigmund Freud

Ideas are God pulling up the frame of the curtain to show us what can be.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

~ James Cash Penney

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

~ Octavio Paz

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

~ Tom Clancy