Ideas Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.

Stalin seeks to strike, not at the ideas of his opponent, but at his skull.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.