He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
- Anatole France
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
- Aristotle
If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Aristotle
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
- Aristotle
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Goethe
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
- Hortense Calisher
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
- J Arthur Thomson
What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
- Jean Genet
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage
If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.
- Laurendo Almeida
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
- Miriam Beard
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
- Randall Jarrell
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
- Randall Jarrell
All great ideas are dangerous
- Randall Jarrell
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
- Unattributed Author
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
- Unattributed Author
