Ideas Quotes

"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."

"They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities."

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."

"A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on."

"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."

"No, I'm just a man committed to great ideas."

"People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."

"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"Ideas... they have the power…"

"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."

"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote"

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows."

"You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea."

"My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas."

"Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished."

"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."

"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."