| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. |
| Anatole France | It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. |
| Aristotle | It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. |
| Aristotle | If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. |
| Aristotle | You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. |
| F Scott Fitzgerald | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. |
| Goethe | When ideas fail, words come in very handy. |
| Hortense Calisher | This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. |
| Howard Aiken | Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. |
| J Arthur Thomson | The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. |
| Jean Genet | What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born. |
| John Cage | I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. |
| Laurendo Almeida | If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research. |
| Miriam Beard | Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. |
| Randall Jarrell | It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. |
| Randall Jarrell | The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. |
| Randall Jarrell | All great ideas are dangerous. |
| Unattributed Author | The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. |
| Unattributed Author | Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. |
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