Ideas Quotes

“When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.”
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

“Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.”
― Roman Payne

“I've just had a really evil idea."
"My favourite kind”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“In my brain were stored a thousand pictures.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.”
― Bryant McGill

“Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Glory

“One entered the world, Denis pursued, having ready-made ideas about everything. One had a philosophy and tried to make life fit into it. One should have lived first and then made one's philosophy to fit life...Life, facts, things were horribly complicated; ideas, even the most difficult of them, deceptively simple. In the world of ideas, everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Was it surprising that one was miserable, horribly unhappy?”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

“The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.”
― Wilfred Funk

“Ideas combined with courage can change the world.”
― David Litwack, There Comes a Prophet

“An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.”
― Robert Frost

“Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.”
― Belinda Jeffrey, One Long Thread

“In every problem there is a lesson to learn, an asset to acquire, a rest to restore, a bitterness to sweeten, a load to lighten or a price to pay.”
― Ikechukwu Joseph

“I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own.”
― Myles Horton, We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

“Mediocrity is Death.”
― Suleman Abdullah

“Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.”
― Orrin Woodward

“An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.”
― Marge Piercy

“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 where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.”
― Peg Bracken

“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's
youthful ideals.”
― Paul Bourget

“Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

“Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.”
― Henry Sweet

“Creativity and ideas fired between every synapse underneath my skin and I felt radiant from the inside out.”
― Belinda Jeffrey, One Long Thread

“Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.”
― Bert Dodson, Keys to Drawing

“There are enough ideas, images, symbols, and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It's a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery, though. Sometimes you get in and it starts right up. Other times, especially if it has been sitting idle for awhile, you turn the key and nothing happens.”
― Bert Dodson, Keys to Drawing

“In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You Believe what you see, You Perceive what you do.”
― Zohaib Naseer

“Ideas are not immaculately conceived.”
― Jack Provonsha

“Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan