Ideas Quotes

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
- Hortense Calisher

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Goethe

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.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
- Aristotle

If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Aristotle

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
- Aristotle

It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live.
- Anatole France

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln