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Alfred Nobel

All ideas come from sensation or reflection.--Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of ma

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Franz Werfel

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Alfred Whitney

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

A. Whitney Griswold

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Edward De Bono

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Howard Aiken

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Anthony D'Angelo

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Eric Bentley

Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Brenda Ueland

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as 'I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget.' But they have no slow, big ideas.

Alfred Nobel

All ideas come from sensation or reflection.--Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of ma

Samuel Johnson

Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge i

Lee Iacocca

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

Theodore Harold White

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Gerald

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Anon.

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.

Franz Werfel

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.

Dr. Dale E. Turner

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Alex Kroll

Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.

Bruce Lee

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep something must be done about them.

Grant Wood

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

Hellen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Chinese Proverb

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

James Abram Garfield

Ideas control the world.

Don Marquis

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Alfred Victor Vigny

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.

Douglas South Wind

You can tell the ideas of a nation by it's advertisements.

Rmy de Gourmont

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

John Maynard Keynes

Ideas shape the course of history.

Henry Ward Beecher

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Laurence Sterne

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

Thomas Alva Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Robert Hutchins

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Julie Arabi

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

George Santayana

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

David Ogilvie

The best ideas come from jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Pearl Bailey

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

Emile Chartier

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Bern Williams

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them.

Tommy Smothers

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Elbert Hubbard

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Samuel Johnson

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

H.L. Mencken

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

Miriam Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

George Crane

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translat

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

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Ideas are not responsible for their followers!

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

You have to let people challenge your ideas.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

The best ideas are common property.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

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

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.

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

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

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

All words are pegs on which to hang ideas.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

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

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

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it.

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

We hate the very idea that our own ideas may be mistaken, so we cling dogmatically to our conjectures.

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

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Equal participants doing similar things will generate lots of new ideas.

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

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.

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

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

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

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.

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