Ideas

(49 votes)   Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Job E. Hodges

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(38 votes)   An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Don Marquis
1878-1937, American Humorist, Journalist

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(234 votes)   A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(204 votes)   The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(190 votes)   There is nothing as exciting as an idea whose time has come

Victor Hugo

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(165 votes)   Eureka! I've got it.

Archimedes
c. 287-12212 BC, Greek Mathematician

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(103 votes)   Ideas are fatal to caste.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(96 votes)   But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(84 votes)   A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright

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(84 votes)   Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(83 votes)   It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(78 votes)   An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet

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(72 votes)   The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

John Williamson

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(71 votes)   There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(70 votes)   An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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