Ideas Quotes

To possess ideas is to gather flowers; to think, is to weave them into garlands.

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas.

The primary reason ideas die quickly in some minds is because they can’t survive in solitary confinement.

General notions are generally wrong.

Many a man has cherished for years as his hobby some vague shadow of an idea, too meaningless to be positively false.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, For they will come into being together.

Great ideas are not charitable.

We have nothing against ideas. We’re against people spreading them.

Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the […]