Famous Ideas Quotes - Famous Quotes about Ideas
'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?
- Wyndham Lewis
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
- Franz Liszt
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
- Napoleon Hill
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Believe in something larger than yourself... Get involved in the big ideas of your time.
- Barbara Bush
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Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
- Mark Van Doren
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller
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Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken
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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met. (referring to a lawyer)
- Abraham Lincoln
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
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I had a great idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.
- Samuel Goldwyn
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I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
- Georges Bizet
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
- John Steinbeck
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
- Joseph Stalin
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Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
- Henri Poincare
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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
- Norman Cousins
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
- Paul Eldridge
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of men.
- Mortimer Adler
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
- Emile Auguste Chartier
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The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.
- Ian Hunter
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas
- Alfred Victor Vigny
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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
- William O. Douglas
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There is a right physical size for every idea.
- Henry Moore
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
- Remy de Gourmont
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
- Louis Aragon
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Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
- Simone Weil
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
- Pearl S. Buck
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