Ideas Quotes - Page 9

• An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Writing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1001, Wordsworth Editions

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• A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Learning, Brainstorming, Notes

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• In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Change, Thinking, Years

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• Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

  Steven Callahan

  Dream, Giving, Imagination

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.

  Phil Knight

  Jobs, Decision, Listening

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Book, Jail, Freedom Of Speech

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Beautiful, Brother

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• So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Responsibility, Firsts, Strange

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• For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

  George Santayana

  Fashion, Investing, Ominous

  1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

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• We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

  Jack Welch

  Service Culture, Intellectual, Together

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• There is no such thing as a false idea.

  William J. Brennan

  Government

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• Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Sometimes, Forfeit

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• New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

  Andy Rooney

  Important, Overrated, Our Time

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.106, PublicAffairs

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• The idea is more important than the object.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Important, Jazz And Life

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• Great ideas are not charitable.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Charitable, Great Idea

  Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• Usually my ideas are small.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

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• I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

  Mose Allison

  Song, Thinking, Phrases

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• I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

  Martin Kippenberger

  Deals, Salesman

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• These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

  Brenda Ueland

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Reality, Prove

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• The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.

  Victor Hugo

  Persistence, Terrible, Absorbing

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.204, Dawson Bros.

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• The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

  Ralph Ellison

  Pride, Irony, Hubris

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• I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Divorce, Passionate

  Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

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• At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.

  James Dean

  Art, Book, Challenges

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• It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.

  Morris Graves

  Art, Men, Quality

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