Famous Idea Quotes in English with Images

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in toughing them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start a new, to strip away what I had been taught.

- Georgia O'Keeffe Quote

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

- Idea Quotes by Abraham Lincoln Download or Share

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

- Idea Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead Download or Share

It is by acts and not by ideas that people lives.

- Idea Quotes by Anatole France Download or Share

An idea is salvation by imagination.

- Idea Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright Download or Share

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

- Idea Quotes by Emile Chartier Download or Share

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

- Helen Keller Quotes

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea.  If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically.  They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Ideas are like rabbits.  You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Man's  mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.

The best ideas are common property.

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

- Tom Stoppard Quotes

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.