A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

A thought is an idea in transit.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

An idea is salvation by imagination

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used them...

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I readily absorb ideas from every source, frequently starting where the last person left off

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

Ideas come from everything

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

The Catholic ideal is to order the whole of life towards unity, not by the denial and destruction of the natural human values, but by bringing them into living relation with spiritual truth and spiritual reality.

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

The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.