Quotes and Sayings about Ideas
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
- Sydney J. Harris
The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
- Sydney J. Harris
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sydney J. Harris
It is better to have a bad method than to have none.
- Charles de Gaulle
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it’s done right.
— Walt Disney
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
— Mark Twain
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
- Scott Belsky
There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!
- Mehmet Murat ildan
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
- Maxwell Maltz
The ideas are louder when there are fewer of them.
- David C. Day
It’s not how great the ideas are. It’s about how you write them, to make them great.
- Primadonna Angela
Just because an idea is true doesn’t mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn’t mean it’s true.
- Jonah Lehrer
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them.
- Jack Foster
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
- Marianne Williamson
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe