Idea Quotes

There are quite a few good idea quotes here, so make sure you write some of them down.

If you don’t, you might forget them.  Enjoy!

1. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -Oscar Wilde

2. An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. -Buddha quote

3. Good ideas are common – what’s uncommon are people who’ll work hard enough to bring them about. -Ashley Brilliant

4. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. -Napoleon Hill

5. The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. -Henry Ward

6. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. -Jim Rohn

7. The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. -Dr.Linus Pauling

8. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

9. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. -Emile Chartier

10. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. -Mary Kay Ash

11. Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. -Karl Marx

12. Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. -John Locke

13. The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. -Henry Ward Beecher

14. You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. -Lee Iacocca

15. Ideas shape the course of history. -John Maynard Keynes

16. All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money. -Robert Collier

17. Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information. -Edward R. Murrow

18. Words are but the signs of ideas. -Samuel Johnson

19. Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. -Donatella Versace

20. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm. -Thomas J. Watson

21. To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action. -Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

22. An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it. -Richard Bach

23. If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic. -Barry Jones

24. There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. -James R. Smith

25. The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. -Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

26. Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil. -Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965)

27. Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself. -Bob Grinde

28. A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

29. Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person. -Unknown

30. Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! -Les Brown

31. A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

32. If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. -Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

33. Many ideas are good for a limited time–not forever. -Robert Townsend

34. People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. -David H Comins

35. The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. -Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)

36. We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. -Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

37. Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something. -E.L. Simpson

38. To have a great idea, have a lot of them. -Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)

39. A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. -William James (1842-1910)

40. Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. -Antoine Rivarol (1753-1801)

41. A new idea is like a child. It’s easier to conceive than to deliver. -Ted Koysis

42. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Which of these “idea quotes” do you like the most?  Please comment below.