Ideas Quotes

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

One has to dismount from an idea, and get into the saddle again, at every parenthesis.

The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence, it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been divided as fools and madmen.

Ideas are living things, not carcasses of prior thought.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.

Getting ideas is like shaving: if you don’t do it every day, you’re a bum.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.