Ideas quotes

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? Ayn Rand
(also about
Philosophy, Money)

Ideas quotes by Jim Rohn

Also about
Labor
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. Labor gives birth to ideas.
Everyone is more or less mad on one point. Rudyard Kipling
(also about
Madness, Obsession)
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. Ralph Waldo Emerson
(also about
Inspiration, Mind, Obsession)
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Francois Voltaire
(also about
Trouble, Individuality)
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. Elbert Hubbard
(also about
Challenge)

Ideas quotes by Pablo Picasso

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book. John Lennon
(also about
Books)
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus
(also about
Religion)
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Edgar Allan Poe
Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it. Sigmund Freud
(also about
Power, Strength)

Ideas quotes by Victor Hugo

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

Ideas quotes by George Gordon Byron

Also about
Thoughts
The power of thought, the magic of the mind. For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Ideas quotes by Albert Camus

Also about
Love
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. Arthur Conan Doyle
(also about
Nature)

Ideas quotes by Nikola Tesla

Also about
Mediocrity, Loneliness, Solitude, Inventions, Creativity, Achievements, Illusion
I don't care that they stole my idea... I care that they don't have any of their own. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. Marie Curie
(also about
Advice, Curiosity)
This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good. Pope Francis
(also about
World, Communication)
I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up. Brad Pitt
(also about
Inspiration, Education, Learning, Movies)
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
(also about
Perfectionism, Idealism, Propaganda, Delusion, Utopia)
It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. Nelson Mandela
(also about
Wisdom, Persuasion)
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. Paulo Coelho
(also about
Property, Creativity)
I am a promoter of ideas: I have to sell ideas which will then be realized by others. Enzo Ferrari
(also about
Promotion)
We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. Hayao Miyazaki
(also about
Law, Property, Rights, Movies)
The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. Chuck Palahniuk
(also about
Problems)
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, "Mummy, keep the door open," when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance! Kate Moss
(also about
Fashion)

Ideas quotes by Anita Borg

Also about
Information, Internet, Communication, Sharing, Women, Startup, Innovations, Community
The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy. Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global 'community of women in computer science' did not exist.

Ideas quotes by David Lynch

Also about
Cinema, Creativity
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(also about
Heart, Mind, Personality, Character, Brain)
A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them. Christian Dior
(also about
Interest, History)

Ideas quotes by Francis Bacon

Also about
Life, Creation, Inspiration, Thoughts
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. Stendhal
(also about
Religion, Power, Tyranny, Control, God)
When I am... completely myself, entirely alone... or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(also about
Inspiration, Music, Solitude, Creativity)
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. Thomas Paine
(also about
Thoughts)
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. Alvar Aalto
(also about
Architecture, Creativity)

Ideas quotes by Ken Thompson

Also about
Biology, Creativity, Thinking
I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it. It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.
"Mad" is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else. Ugo Betti
(also about
Madness, Obsession)
There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think "YES"! Joanne Rowling

Ideas quotes by G. H. Hardy

Also about
Science, Art, Mathematics, Glory
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct. Brian Greene
(also about
Science, Mistakes)
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. Thomas More
(also about
Creativity, Originality)
I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing. Haruki Murakami
(also about
Inspiration, Running)
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. Marcel Proust
(also about
Inspiration, Challenge)

Ideas quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Also about
Inspiration, Art, Advice, Illusion, Principles, Humanity, Health, Spirit
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

Ideas quotes by Thomas Mann

Also about
Principles, Writers, Creativity, Inspiration
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. John Steinbeck
(also about
Humour, Creativity)
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald
(also about
Foolishness, Great)
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart Maya Angelou
(also about
Writing)
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know. Adolf Hitler
(also about
Motivation, Respect, Principles, Struggle)