Idea Quotes

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. (Sydney Smith)
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers. View quote
Stephen Hawking
There is nothing as exciting as an idea whose time has come. View quote
Victor Hugo
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. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. View quote
Will Rogers
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. View quote
E. M. Forster
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. View quote
Napoleon Hill
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it. View quote
Don Marquis
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. View quote
Leon Trotsky
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. (Walter Bagehot)
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun - together. View quote
Walt Disney
Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. View quote
Germaine Greer
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. View quote
Ken Thompson
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing. View quote
Eric Cantona
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. View quote
Susie Bright
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. View quote
E. M. Forster
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. (Marilyn vos Savant)
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it. View quote
Diane Sawyer
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky. View quote
Boris Yeltsin