Ideas Quotes

Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it,' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.

~ Spider Robinson

Brew it local, make it global, take it to the very far.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.

~ Neil Gaiman

I have no ideas, myself! Not a one! there's nothing more vulgar, more common, more disgusting than ideas! libraries are loaded with them! and every sidewalk cafe!...the impotent are bloated with ideas!...they dazzle youth with ideas! they play the pimp!...and youth is ever ready, as you know, Professor, to gobble up anything, to go OOH! and AAH! by the numbers! How those pimps have an easy job of it! the passionate years of youth are spent getting a hard on and gargling ideeaas!...philosophies, if you prefer!...yes sir, philosophies! youth loves sham just as young dogs love those sticks, like bones, that we throw and they run after! they race forward, yipping away, wasting their time, that's the main thing!

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, and page represents an exploratory probe into the unknown; each statement is an act of experimentation, investigation, creation, and growth.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

If you are excited of an idea that no one else, all that should matter to you is focus. Progressive thinkers are driven by their interests, not whether others are interested.

~ Santosh Avvannavar

It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains.

~ Steven Magee

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

~ David Byrne

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.

~ Abhishek Ratna

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it.Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man.A man that made me remember the 5th of November. A man that I will never forget.

~ Alan Moore

As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!

~ George R. Stewart

Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

~ Oscar Wilde

Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.

~ Alberto Cairo

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances.

~ Alberto Cairo

It's not enough to have good ideas, you need to master their implementation.Rossi, Luca (2014-06-22). Galactic Energies: Science fiction and fantasy short stories (p. 20). . Kindle Edition.

~ Luca Rossi

What I speak and express is what, that does not even belong to me.

~ Alok Jagawat

I'll never use force to try to make my enemies think the way I think, George - partly because I don't believe in it, and partly because it's useless. You can't destroy ideas by force, and you can't hide 'em by silence.

~ Kenneth Roberts

Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas.

~ Asa Don Brown

Profound thoughts arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas, but also dubious ideas.

~ Andrei Sakharov

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

~ James Rozoff

The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass of meaning andThe mass of men are one. Chaos is notThe mass of meaning. It is three or fourIdeas, or, say, five men or, possibly, six.In the end, these philosophic assassins pullRevolvers and shoot each other. One remains.The mass of meaning becomes composed again.

~ Wallace Stevens

When an idea for solving a problem suddenly presents itself, ask yourself if all circumstances related to the problem were properly analyzed.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

The somatotype of the cat or any animal from quadruped to biped partially determines the perspective of the creature. The physiology of any given creature will alter its understanding of its environment. A close look then at the physiology of cats and dogs and one biped, in particular, the primate, should give anyone a clear reason for the biological and psychological shaping of religion. This examination of cats, dogs and then other primates, humanity's cousins, in comparison with some religious ideals, will show just how physiological perspectives would and have influenced religious dogma or cat-ma as the case may be.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

People don't have ideas, ideas have people.

~ Paul B. Rainey

Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself

~ Paresh Shah

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters to sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths. That openness to new ideas, combined with the most rigorous, skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, sifts the wheat from the chaff. It makes no difference how smart, august, or beloved you are. You must prove your case in the face of determined, expert criticism. Diversity and debate are valued. Opinions are encouraged to contend–substantively and in depth.

~ Carl Sagan

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.

~ Louis L'amour

May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . .

~ King Davis

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Insight is rarer, and infinitely more precious. A strong insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand reasons to act and make something happen. That, more than anything, should be your reason to fight and persevere for your own insight moment. When you are armed with a powerful insight, the ideas never stop flowing.

~ Phil Dusenberry

Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors.

~ Steve Maraboli

Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creatingnew ideas.

~ Eraldo Banovac

If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.).

~ Eraldo Banovac

For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.

~ Shawn Lukas

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

~ Louise Erdrich