IDEA QUOTES VI

quotations about ideas

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary


Who knows if the idea does not make a very tiny noise like the finest instruments and empirically unravel (by comparison and experiment) what would be.

CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN

Levels


Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

NEIL GAIMAN

"Where do you get your ideas?"

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Ideas are born in chaos.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

AYN RAND

The Fountainhead

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Ideas come from everywhere. New ideas are never the problem; finding the time to act on them – that’s the problem.

CHERIE PRIEST

Alternative Magazine Online, Jul. 18, 2011

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There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics


Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

A.V. Club interview, Jan. 28, 1998


Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

STEVE ALLEN, More Steve Allen on the Bible

Religion


Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

GASTON BACHELARD

The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood


I have so many ideas; there are so many things that need to be done, so many possibilities, you know; one is terribly excited, but at the same time, you're almost confused, because you don't know where to begin.

CHINUA ACHEBE

interview, Okike, 1990