120+ Brilliant Quotes About Ideas!

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

A brilliant idea doesn’t guarantee a successful invention. The real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes. – Lori Greiner

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. – Marilyn Vos Savant

A light and trifling mind never takes in great ideas, and never accomplishes anything great or good. – William Sprague

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today! – Nolan Bushnell

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. – John F. Kennedy

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners or slaves of their concept and ideas. – Maharaji

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it. – Marcel Proust

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. – Bertrand Russel

All good ideas arrive by chance. – Max Ernst

All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas…only a few of us have the courage to take the next step. – Manoj Arora

An idea is salvation by imagination. – Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. – Arnold H. Glasgow

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea. – Swami Vivekananda

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. – Henry Ward Beecher

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time. – Henry Ford

The best ideas are common property. – Epistles Seneca

The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only… not a sentimental pretense but an idea. – Joseph Conrad

The creative mind is playful. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. – Eric Hoffer

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones. – John Maynard Keynes

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail except his mistakes. – Aubrey Menen

The greatest ideas are the simplest. – William Golding

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. – P. B. Medawar 

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone. – Michelangelo

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. – Tom Felton

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.  – Mark Twain

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are mere revivals of ancient errors and further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. – Henry Hazlitt

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression; the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. – Alfred Bougeart

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. – Wilfred Funk

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of goodwill. – J. Arthur Thomson

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas. – Lois Wyse

The power of an idea can be measured by the degree of resistance it attracts.        – David Yoho

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. – Dee Hock

The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. – Judge John Kane

The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. – Bill Bernbach

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.              – William Benton

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. – Oscar Wilde

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant if you can implement them. – Gene Simmons

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. – Audre Lorde

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.                  – Anatole France

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for true ideas! – H. L. Mencken

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.  – William Hazlitt

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea