“It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.”
“If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
“Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.”
“People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.”
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
“Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.”
“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.”
“The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.”
“A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.”
“They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.”
“Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set multitudes thinking come as gold for the mines.”
“The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”
“You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.”
“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
“Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.”
“An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.”
“Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.”
“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”
“Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.”
“Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.”
“Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.”
“Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself.”
“It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.”
“A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.”
“Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.”
“Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.”
“There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.”
“Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.”