Famously Said Random quote

Topics/Thinking

Quotes about ideas

115 quotes from 89 people

Most readBy personPage 1 of 8

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Education
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo1802–1885
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
Charles F. Brannan1903–1992Often credited to George Bernard Shaw
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises (14 June 1953)
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Speech delivered to the Dail (Parliament of Ireland) (28 June 1963)
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
?UnattributedOften credited to Joseph Stalin
- Guns
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain1835–1910Following the Equator (1897), Ch. 32.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle384–322 BC
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 362
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
SHSydney J. Harris1917–1986Strictly Personal (1953), “Purely Personal Prejudices”
- Youth
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo1802–1885