Ideas Quotes
These are some of the best 'Ideas' quotations and sayings.
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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
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A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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A vague recollection fills my mind, an image dazzling, but undefined, like the memory of a gorgeous dream.-It crowds my brain confusedly, but will not stay.-It changes like the tremulous sunshine on the wave, till imagination itself is dazzled, bewildered, overpowered.
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An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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An idea, like a ghost, according to the common notion of ghosts, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person.
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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
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Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
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Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.
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For parlour use, the vague generality is a lifesaver.
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
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Ideas are cosmopolitan. - They have the liberty of the world. - You have no right to take the sword and cross the bounds of other nations, and enforce on them laws or institutions they are unwilling to receive. - But there is no limit to the sphere of ideas. Your thoughts and feelings, the whole world lies open to them, and you have the right to send them into any latitude, and to give them sweep around the earth, to the mind of every human being.
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Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.
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