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I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.
— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
I have no ideas, myself! Not a one! there's nothing more vulgar, more common, more disgusting than ideas! libraries are loaded with them! and every sidewalk cafe!...the impotent are bloated with ideas!...they dazzle youth with ideas! they play the pimp!...and youth is ever ready, as you know, Professor, to gobble up anything, to go OOH! and AAH! by the numbers! How those pimps have an easy job of it! the passionate years of youth are spent getting a hard on and gargling ideeaas!...philosophies, if you prefer!...yes sir, philosophies! youth loves sham just as young dogs love those sticks, like bones, that we throw and they run after! they race forward, yipping away, wasting their time, that's the main thing!
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Conversations with Professor Y
No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, and page represents an exploratory probe into the unknown; each statement is an act of experimentation, investigation, creation, and growth.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
If you are excited of an idea that no one else, all that should matter to you is focus. Progressive thinkers are driven by their interests, not whether others are interested.
— Santosh Avvannavar, Umbilical Cord: A cord that remains, always, in many ways...
It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains.
— Steven Magee
There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.
— David Byrne, How Music Works
Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Many a time, we let go of some really good ideas just because we feel they are too controversial.
— Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!
The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it.Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man.A man that made me remember the 5th of November. A man that I will never forget.
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!
— George R. Stewart, U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America
Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.
— Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances.
— Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
It's not enough to have good ideas, you need to master their implementation.Rossi, Luca (2014-06-22). Galactic Energies: Science fiction and fantasy short stories (p. 20). . Kindle Edition.
— Luca Rossi, Il Regno di Turlis
What I speak and express is what, that does not even belong to me.
— Alok Jagawat
I'll never use force to try to make my enemies think the way I think, George - partly because I don't believe in it, and partly because it's useless. You can't destroy ideas by force, and you can't hide 'em by silence.
— Kenneth Roberts, Oliver Wiswell
Brainstorming is the nexus of ideas.
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
Profound thoughts arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas, but also dubious ideas.
— Andrei Sakharov
Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.
— James Rozoff
The law of chaos is the law of ideas,Of improvisations and seasons of belief.Ideas are men. The mass of meaning andThe mass of men are one. Chaos is notThe mass of meaning. It is three or fourIdeas, or, say, five men or, possibly, six.In the end, these philosophic assassins pullRevolvers and shoot each other. One remains.The mass of meaning becomes composed again.
— Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
When an idea for solving a problem suddenly presents itself, ask yourself if all circumstances related to the problem were properly analyzed.
— Eraldo Banovac
Ideas won't keep
—  something must be done about them.
I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process." Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.
— Michael   Lewis
The somatotype of the cat or any animal from quadruped to biped partially determines the perspective of the creature. The physiology of any given creature will alter its understanding of its environment. A close look then at the physiology of cats and dogs and one biped, in particular, the primate, should give anyone a clear reason for the biological and psychological shaping of religion. This examination of cats, dogs and then other primates, humanity's cousins, in comparison with some religious ideals, will show just how physiological perspectives would and have influenced religious dogma or cat-ma as the case may be.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
People don't have ideas, ideas have people.
— Paul B. Rainey
Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself
— Paresh Shah
the best ideas flow at night
— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters to sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths. That openness to new ideas, combined with the most rigorous, skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, sifts the wheat from the chaff. It makes no difference how smart, august, or beloved you are. You must prove your case in the face of determined, expert criticism. Diversity and debate are valued. Opinions are encouraged to contend–substantively and in depth.
— Carl Sagan
It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano
—  but it is even much more spectacular to watch the rise of a newly exploding revolutionary idea!
It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.
— Louis L'Amour, The Lonely Men
May life continue to inspire you for good works and an, inevitable, outcome. May wisdom never fail your endeavors . . .
— King Davis
Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Insight is rarer, and infinitely more precious. A strong insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand reasons to act and make something happen. That, more than anything, should be your reason to fight and persevere for your own insight moment. When you are armed with a powerful insight, the ideas never stop flowing.
— Phil Dusenberry
Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors.
— Steve Maraboli
Having an open mind is the most important precondition for creatingnew ideas.
— Eraldo Banovac
If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process ofrealization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.).
— Eraldo Banovac
For when ideas flutter in haze, we collaborate without notice and collect them as butterflies only to set them free into the world.
— Shawn Lukas
And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.
— Louise Erdrich, The Round House
When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences.
— Eraldo Banovac
A good idea isn't good until you consider the idea as a good
— Goitsemang Mvula
A good idea isn't good until you consider the idea as a good.
— Goitsemang Mvula
Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.
— Eraldo Banovac
Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization.
— Eraldo Banovac
An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either asa result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or justas a spark that lights up the considered problem.
— Eraldo Banovac
There is no better way to improve yourself than an exchange of ideaswith peers.
— Eraldo Banovac
The precondition for solving a problem is having a clear idea on how tosolve it.
— Eraldo Banovac
It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them.
— Eraldo Banovac
Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them.
— Eraldo Banovac
An idea is like a spark in the dark – it makes everything brighter.
— Eraldo Banovac
The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
A writer is a messenger for the subconscious.
— Mark Tilbury
A complicated idea is a confused idea.
— Marty Rubin
Ideas are easy
—  Saying it is easy
God always has fresh ideas
— Sunday Adelaja
Ideas are like wine. They get better when they have time to mature.
— R.M. ArceJaeger
Ideas are sphincters. Every asshole has one. Your take is what counts.
— Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".
— Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
Ideas are bulletproof
— Steve Moore, V for Vendetta
Indifference to ideas is a sign of good health.
— Marty Rubin
Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Followers can't give new ideas and never be a leader.
— Deshwal Sachin
Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.
— Kerstin Gier, Ruby Red
Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
knowledge without creativity is useless creativity without knowledge is meaningless
— shashidhar sa
Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.
— Joanie Connell, Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life
Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.
— Pippa DaCosta
knowledge without creativity is useless ,creativity without knowledge is meaningless – msa
— shashidhar sa
The key to genius is knowing how to make connections.
— Nor Sanavongsay
Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.
— David Lynch
But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
— Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
— Nolan Bushnell
My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.
— Ryan Lilly
And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began. The stories were always looking for a way to be told, to be brought to life through books and reading. That was how they crossed over from their world into ours. But with them came the Crooked Man, prowling between his world and ours, looking for stories of his own to create, hunting for children who dreamed bad dreams, who were jealous and angry and proud. And he made kings and queens of them, cursing them with a kind of power, even if the real power lay always in his hands. And in return they betrayed the objects of their jealousy to him, and he took them into his lair deep beneath the castle...
— John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.
— Marcel Proust, Time Regained
A philosophy must be livable
—  it can't just be ideas.
It isn't an idea until it’s created irrespective of its result
— PrasannaNPK
It isn't an idea until it’s created, irrespective of its result
— PrasannaNPK
After the launch phase, your product is old news. Take advantage of the opportunity to generate interest when your product is new.
— Brian Lawley, Optimal Product Process
Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
— Marcel Proust, Time Regained
You're only as good as your next idea. And if you can't agree on that, then it's time to walk.
— John Hegarty, Hegarty on Advertising
Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I’d never get anything done.
— Lawrence C.  Connolly
It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
— Scott Belsky
Comments outnumber ideas.
— Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
— Pete Hautman
Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
— Stephen Chbosky
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
— Judy Blume
There's nothing more exciting than ideas.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Well, the man who first translated the bible into English was burned at the stake, and they've been at it ever since. Must be all that adultery, murder and incest. But not to worry. It's back on the shelves.
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust. Facts are no more solid, coherent, round, and real than pearls are.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires
— Richard Wright, The Outsider
People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.
— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal
—  you tune in different frequencies.
To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.
— Pedro A. Pérez Raymond
problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.
— Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home
I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that came under discussion could be claimed or rejected by either side. Time and time again the power of an idea or a piece of art was assessed by either its beauty or its technique or its usefulness, and time and time again my wife was surprised by how rarely anything on earth satisfies all three camps.
— Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird
Not once not twice but at least a dozen times i have advanced an idea to people who thought i was either dreaming , imagining the impossible or just in over my head. When the birth of a rare idea lives to see the light of day it is astounding . I have some ideas am now advancing and i am watching closely the discomfort change presents. To achieve different results we have to change how we do things , we must slay lunacy
— Victor Manan Nyambala
FOR BEING A SUCESSFUL PERSON, ONE NEEDS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF DIVERSIFIED FEILDS. IT WILL IMPROVE YOUR THOUGHTS AND GIVES YOU CREATIVE IDEAS. YOUR VISION WILL BE BROADER AND AIM WILL BE HIGH. WHAT IT NEEDS TO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN YOU!
— PRIYANSHU JOSHI
[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier. You wouldn’t want all of intellectual life to be that social--we couldn’t make progress that way. But there’s a special atmosphere that develops whenever truly different ideas congregate, and, on the whole, it’s too rare.
— Joshua Rothman
You have two options. work on someone else's ideas and make some money or generate ideas make them work and become a millionaire.
— Roberto Llamas
One of the most remarkable contributions of humans to the world is our capacity for ideas.
— Richard J. Borden, Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective
Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.
— Ryan Lilly
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
— Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel
I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy
— Tim Minchin
I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,” the people of my grandma’s generation said as they worked themselves to death. “God wants you to forgive and love those who do you wrong,” some people said to shake off the shame of being unable to respond to the abuse they endured. The holier-than-thou faction found comfort in believing, “The rest of y’all are lost because you don’t have a personal relationship with God—our God.” But art engages you in the world, not just the world around you but the big world, and not just the big world of Tokyo and Sydney and Johannesburg, but the bigger world of ideas and concepts and feelings of history and humanity.
— Wynton Marsalis, Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.
— John Maynard Keynes
This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles.
— Ayn Rand, Anthem
We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.
— Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty
...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
— Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
I sat and three hours later realized I had been seized by an idea that started short but grew to wild size by day's end. The concept was so riveting I found it hard at sunset to flee the library basement and take the bus home to reality: my house, my wife, and our baby daughter.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.
— Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.
— Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Television
Visualization prepares you for the experience of success. As you become increasingly optimistic and excited about ideas that motivate you, you open yourself to new ideas, meaningful relationships, and exhilarating opportunities.
— Julie Connor
I had worked my way through a thousand problems, like when the tar paper bulged on the corners so I used a strap wrapped around the whole house and ratcheted it tight to attach the trim; I had figured that out without using a book, and that was just one of a bunch of ideas that had saved the day. I liked it; I was falling in love with the way my kneecaps knew how to hold a piece of plywood halfway up till I could grab the underside with my hand. I like the way the little house was taking shape, and the way it seemed to double-dog dare me to step in... move in.
— Dee Williams
The idea turned Facebook into the digital version of a message in a bottle.
— Massimo Marino, Daimones
People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.
— Edward Frenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, but they usually don't last that long. They're more like mayflies; they're born, big and gleaming, and then they fly around, buzzing like crazy before they fall to the floor, dead, about twenty four hours later.
— Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y
People with power listen less carefully, and have difficulty taking into account what others already know.
— Dean M. Schroeder
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.
— Edward Forbes
After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.
— Alan G. Robinson, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
As managers rise up the hierarchy, a host of situational forces come to bear on them which can easily undermine their respect for the people on the front lines, and hence cause them to disregard the value in front-line ideas.
— Dean M. Schroeder, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.
— Dean M. Schroeder, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose."I nodded. "I can do that.""No," said Dimitri. "You can't.""Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me."Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans."There was an uncomfortable silence in the car."No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!
— Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall.
— Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
— H.L. Mencken, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.
— George Pólya, Mathematical Discovery on Understanding, Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving, Volume I
A brain with many ideas is like a house with many windows! Inside is full of lights!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.
— Paul Pavlo Shiller
The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.
— Lyle Wesley Dorsett
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
— Lawrence Durrell
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in thought. Thought --to call it by a prouder name than it deserved-- had let its line down into the stream. It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it until --you know the little tug -- the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out? Alas, laid on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Our ideas are like boomerangs,when you throw them they are destined to come back.
— Pradeep Chaswal
Public opinion is to an unconventional idea … what abortion is to sperm.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
In our world, to do what you want to do, you must first do what you have to do.
— Anirudh Arun, The Steadfast Tin Soldier?
An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.
— Nathan McCall, Them
Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.
— Zack W. Van
Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.
— Ellie Ann
Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.
— Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.
— Don Maruska, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life
Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
— Bill Hicks
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
— Galt Niederhoffer, The Romantics
And you realize that there’s no such thing as an individual, we’re just all a collection of each other’s influence on each other. Everyone says things to each other, the television, your parents, your friends, that’s all we are, is a collection of intermingling ideas as a collective.
— Matt Bellamy
The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
— Linus Pauling
So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.
— Stacey Kade, The Rules
Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one
— Jo Linsdell
After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one.
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Armageddon in Retrospect
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
— Thomas Jefferson
15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims of Goethe
We have to face the idea that we're completely nobody right now
— Ariel Seraphino
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.
— Edward Glaeser, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.
— Greg  Curtis
Some ideas take you to the stars
—  some sinks you to the mud!
The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
One idea lights a thousand candles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido.
— Umberto Eco, On Literature
Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.
— Red Red Rover
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; it has made all monstrous and widely pervading persecutions. In this degree it was not the people who cared who ever persecuted; the people who cared were not sufficiently numerous. It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack. There have come some persecutions out of the pain of a passionate certainty; but these produced, not bigotry, but fanaticism--a very different and a somewhat admirable thing. Bigotry in the main has always been the pervading omnipotence of those who do not care crushing out those who care in darkness and blood.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.
— Debra Kaye, Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovations
Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
— Roger Von Oech, A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.
— Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun
There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I've just had a really evil idea.""My favourite kind
— Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal
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
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
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 brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.
— Theodore Zeldin
An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
— Robert Frost
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
— Phil Cooke, One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do
Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body sunk into that chair in the approach to midnight, a clock ticking at the threshold of awareness. All the endless detail of a solid and material world surrounding you. These things exist. They can be measured with a yardstick, a voltammeter, a weighing scale. These things are real. Then there’s the mind, half-focused on the TV, the settee, the clock. This ghostly knot of memory, idea and feeling that we call ourself also exists, though not within the measurable world our science may describe.Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know. The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. Before the Age of Reason was announced, humanity had polished strategies for interacting with the world of the imaginary and invisible: complicated magic-systems; sprawling pantheons of gods and spirits, images and names with which we labelled powerful inner forces so that we might better understand them. Intellect, Emotion and Unconscious Thought were made divinities or demons so that we, like Faust, might better know them; deal with them; become them.Ancient cultures did not worship idols. Their god-statues represented ideal states which, when meditated constantly upon, one might aspire to. Science proves there never was a mermaid, blue-skinned Krishna or a virgin birth in physical reality. Yet thought is real, and the domain of thought is the one place where gods inarguably ezdst, wielding tremendous power. If Aphrodite were a myth and Love only a concept, then would that negate the crimes and kindnesses and songs done in Love’s name? If Christ were only ever fiction, a divine Idea, would this invalidate the social change inspired by that idea, make holy wars less terrible, or human betterment less real, less sacred?The world of ideas is in certain senses deeper, truer than reality; this solid television less significant than the Idea of television. Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map.Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.
— Alan Moore
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
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
You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.
— Marty Rubin
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
— Agatha Christie
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
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
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ideas are not immaculately conceived.
— Jack Provonsha
You Believe what you see, You Perceive what you do.
— Zohaib Naseer
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
— Rod Serling
Wine gives one 'ideas,' whereas champagne gives one 'strategies.
— Roman Payne
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
Ideas combined with courage can change the world.
— David Litwack, There Comes a Prophet
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
— Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
— Mark Van Doren
Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.
— Orrin Woodward
An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.
— Ingrid
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
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
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
— Peace Pilgrim
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
— Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
if there is any worry in your mind, and if at that moment the words 'My Lord' comes to your lips, then believe me your worry will be destroyed. If at that moment you remember that you are not without a Protector, you have (are with) a Protector, then how can fear remain? Fear comes only in the lives of those who are without any Protector.
— SWAMI SHARNANAND JI
It doesn't take an army to change the world, or an average-sized militia group, either. All it takes is one individual to say the word "No". Be it a man refusing to register for the draft, or be it a gun owner refusing to register his weapons in Connecticut, it is the same: defiance in the face of arbitrary authority.
— Mike Klepper
when we work together, we achieve more. Character is not a concept that is simply spoken about, but actually manifests itself through our actions.
— Jose A. Aviles, Peer Mentorship in High School: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing a Successful Peer Mentorship Program in Your School
The powerlessness of people with pure intentions, in the long run, can sometimes be more powerful than power in the hands of those blinded or depraved by evil tempers.
— Widad Akreyi, The Viking's Kurdish Love: A True Story of Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival, Years 988-1003