Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old idea quotes, idea sayings, and idea proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.Grace Hopper
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.Paulo Coelho
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.Nigel Farage
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If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.Emile Durkheim
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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.Swami Vivekananda
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.Napoleon Hill
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Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. Swami Vivekananda
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If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.Ray Bradbury
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.A. R. Rahman
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.Jean Piaget
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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.Nelson Mandela
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It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strengthCarson Kressley
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A thought is an idea in transit.Pythagoras
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.Thomas Edison
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Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. Diane Sawyer
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.Charles Dickens
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It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.Evan Davis
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The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.Jennifer Doudna
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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.Jim Rohn
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Everything begins with an idea.Earl Nightingale
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A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. Marilyn vos Savant
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.Pablo Picasso
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.Linus Pauling
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My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation. Kirsty Gallacher
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
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Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.Kevin Plank
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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.Tim Berners-Lee
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.John F. Kennedy
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The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.Freeman Dyson
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Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.Brene Brown
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Swami Vivekananda
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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.Robert H. Schuller
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That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.Mos Def
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The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.Ginni Rometty
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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.Anne Lamott
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The value of an idea lies in the using of it. Thomas Edison
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Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place. Pope Francis
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The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.Patti Smith
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A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.Marcel Proust
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Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.Helmut Jahn
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.Oscar Wilde
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.Wilbur Wright
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.Don Marquis
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Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.Albert Einstein
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Imagination is the highest form of research.Albert Einstein
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession, and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideasAlbert Einstein
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.Arthur Dove
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.BILL MOYERS
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Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.Dale Carnegie
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These days, the problem isn't how to innovate it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.Douglas Engelbart
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.Edward de Bono
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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.Edward de Bono
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.Elias Canetti
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Ideas are the root of creation.Ernest Dimnet
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If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.Francis Picabia
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images affect a very simple communion of souls.Gaston Bachelard
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The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.Henry Ford
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.Henry Ward Beecher
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A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.Jean Ingelow
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.Jim Hightower
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If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.Jim Rohn
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.John Maynard Keynes
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.Lee Iacocca
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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.Linus Pauling
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.Marie Curie
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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.Mary Kay Ash
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You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.Maya Angelou
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.Mignon McLaughlin
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You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results and no reward.Miguel Angel Ruiz
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First comes thought then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.Napoleon Hill
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better. Richard Branson
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.Robert Bulwer-Lytton
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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.Robin Williams
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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.W. Clement Stone