Ideas Quotes

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

~ Louise Slaughter

The best ideas start as conversations.

~ Jonathan Ive

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

~ Andrew Lo

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

~ Margaret Heffernan

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

~ Arthur C. Clarke

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

~ Alfred Nobel

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

~ Pope Francis

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

~ Grant Wood

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

~ Steven Johnson

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

~ H. G. Wells

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

~ Evita Peron

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

~ Luigi Pirandello

It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?

~ Nigel Farage

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

~ Rachel True

Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.

~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

~ John Maynard Keynes

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

~ Pericles

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

~ Ralph Steadman

It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.

~ Edward Everett Hale

For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.

~ Erin Mckean

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.

~ Lee Gutkind

Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

~ John Thune

There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.

~ James Jannard

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

~ George Berkeley

Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.

~ Lisa Randall

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.

~ Cesare Beccaria

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

~ Milton Friedman

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

~ Seth Shostak

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.

~ James Surowiecki

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

~ Philippe Cousteau

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

~ Jason Silva

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

~ Mark Rylance

It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

~ Marya Hornbacher

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

~ James Salter

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

~ Michael Hayden

Our Party conferred the honourable title, 'The Heroic Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,' on our working class that supported the great leaders' ideas and leadership with loyalty.

~ Kim Jong-Un

Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.

~ Bernie Sanders

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.

~ Mark Mckinnon