Ideas Quotes

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

Ideas have consequences.

— Richard M. Weaver

The best idea is the simplest.

— David Ogilvy

The ideas dictate everything.

— David Lynch

“Monday is a breakfast of ideas.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“Mediocrity is Death.”

— Suleman Abdullah

An idea never dies.

— Jeremy Limn

All beliefs are bald ideas.

— Francis Picabia

You have no idea how strong my love is!

— Elizabeth Gilbert

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

— Isabel Paterson

I usually just have ideas when I have them.

— Vince Staples

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

— Satoru Iwata

When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.

— Walt Disney

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances.

— Brooke Elliott

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

— Ananya Birla

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

— Anonymous

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created…

— Pete Hoekstra

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.

— Johannes Itten

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…

— William James

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

— George Orwell

A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.

— Jon Hopkins

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

— Félix J. Palma

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

— Alton Brown

Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even…

— Jennifer Gilmore

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are…

— Edward Tufte

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having…

— Richard Hofstadter

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then…

— Joe Lonsdale

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is…

— Vera Brittain

We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the…

— J. J. Abrams

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich…

— Jim Butcher

This is a book that respects kids and their ideas. And in that regard, it places Chasing Vermeer in the tradition of…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game.…

— William T. Vollmann

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a…

— Seneca the Younger

The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences and ideas dragged…

— Anonymous

In Sliding Doors, the whole idea is that every choice you make, and every single thing that happens to you changes the…

— David Levithan

In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a…

— Donald Judd

I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in…

— Gerhard Richter

Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions,…

— Alan Grant

We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should…

— Bell Hooks