Ideas Quotes

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you’re having a good idea but it’s just eggs hatching.

An idea is a dangerous thing under the best of circumstances.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.