Ideas Quotes

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned.

All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

We cannot take anything for granted beyond the first mathematical formulae. Question everything else.

In the matter of ideas the public prefer the cheap and nasty.

The first thing an idea does is to kill somebody.

General notions are generally wrong.

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false.