Quotes

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

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

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
-J Arthur Thomson

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
-Miriam Beard

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
-Unattributed Author

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

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

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
-Jean Genet

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
-Randall Jarrell

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea.
-Unattributed Author

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

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

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-John Cage

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
-Randall Jarrell

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

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

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

If you steal ideas from one source, that's plagiarism, but if you steal ideas from more than one source, that's research.
-Laurendo Almeida

All great ideas are dangerous
-Randall Jarrell