Ideas Quotes

We can communicate an idea around the world in 70 seconds, but it sometimes takes years for an idea to get through 1/4″ of human skull.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

To possess ideas is to gather flowers; to think, is to weave them into garlands.

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas.

The primary reason ideas die quickly in some minds is because they can’t survive in solitary confinement.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Funny thing about ideas; they never work unless you do.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.