Ideas Quotes

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writer...

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a ...

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head ...

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living r...

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must t...

In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transform...

I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, an...

The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to ...

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ...

I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived accordi...

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property,...

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to pr...

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. ...

Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who thin...

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where...

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where...

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of...

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our ...

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do wit

But the truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.")

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to k...

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity o...

I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas ...

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British i...

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot ...

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because i...

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

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

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas w...

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if ...

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot ...

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one ...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had...

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will ...

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all the...

It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one'syouthful ideals.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and...

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitu...

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

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "...

They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an id...

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's ...

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, a...

I am a plain person. I have merely spoken out my mind. I do not say you should believe what I have s...

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscros...

Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't fo...

I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really de...

Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come ...

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

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dr...

No man is as big as his own idea.

I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wil...

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your be...

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to th...

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yoursel...

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather tha...

An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are po...

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.The more you look the more you see.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned w...

I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe t...

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's viv...

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while r...

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetical...

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, bu...

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, ...

When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout ...