Top 505 Ideas Quotes

Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
Alain de Botton
What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.
Jim Peebles
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison
Most people don’t grab the right ideas or don’t know what to do with them.
Charlie Munger
I thought, ‘I have ideas. I’m creative.’ I just didn’t see why I should be pigeon-holing myself in the business world or staying in corporate America when I already knew that I was capable of taking risks.
Payal Kadakia
You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don’t train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
Gary Hamel
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
David Seabury
Remember: real politics isn’t about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding the extreme ideas that have been gaining ground in the Netherlands for decades.
Rutger Bregman
You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.
Goldie Hawn
There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.
Shawn Fanning
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
Henry Bessemer
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
In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
Elizabeth Kenny
I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.
Winslow Homer
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase ‘the play of ideas’ and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Julia Cameron
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
Worldwide is an overused word. But it’s true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.
Elie Saab
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
George H. W. Bush
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow
I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun.
Lonnie Johnson
As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.
Steve Blank
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle
Believe in something larger than yourself… get involved in the big ideas of your time.
Barbara Bush
I hate the whole concept of comfort! It’s like when people say: ‘Well we’re not really in love but we’re in a comfortable relationship.’ You’re abandoning a lot of ideas when you’re too into comfort.
Christian Louboutin
Bureaucracy kills people’s ability to try new ideas.
Walter O’Brien
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
Paul P. Harris
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Candace Bushnell
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they ar

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
Brian Eno
I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.
Kevin Cramer
Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.
Cher Wang
It’s a challenging task for every artist to come up with new ideas. Your last video would have made a benchmark, so the next one should ideally be better than your previous work, so there’s always a competition with myself to be better.
Bhuvan Bam
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.
Leo Burnett
All good ideas arrive by chance.
Max Ernst
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
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
George Berkeley
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That’s the fundamental thing.
Ben Horowitz
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger
Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
Don Miguel Ruiz
I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There’s lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.
Kelly McCreary
Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
John C. Maxwell
I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.
Emma Watson
Everyone is using the same programs, everyone is looking at the same opening ideas. I wouldn’t say everyone is necessarily the same in terms of talent or ability, but when you’re able to prepare games that go so deep that you don’t have to think, really, it balances out the field.
Hikaru Nakamura
Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld’s famous aphorism that ‘Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,’ and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest – or costliest – of sins.
Bari Weiss
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
John C. Maxwell
A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.
Edwin Catmull
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel
Hustle is simple – it’s doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it’s difficult to actually do the work.
Troy Carter
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
Michael Morpurgo
I do not ‘get’ ideas; ideas get me.
Robertson Davies
I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
Georges Bizet
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It’s just a characteristic.
Francis Ford Coppola
Basically, I just want to talk about love and how it can overcome boundaries. I want to discuss those more universal beliefs, not more politicized ideas.
J Balvin
Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.
Jane Smiley
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
Bernard Arnault
Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that p

Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn’t like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime.
Henry Moore
I usually have two or three ideas floating around. When I have free time, the one I end up thinking most about is the one I end up pursuing.
Colson Whitehead
We did have a script, but it didn’t consist of the routines and gags. It outlined the basic story idea and just a plan for us to follow. But when it came to each scene, we and the gagmen would work out ideas.
Stan Laurel
The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism – otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group – otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.
Adam Curtis