Ideas Quotes

We cannot take anything for granted beyond the first mathematical formulae. Question everything else.

In the matter of ideas the public prefer the cheap and nasty.

The first thing an idea does is to kill somebody.

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 […]