Browsing Topic Best Ideas Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

New ideas must use old buildings.

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

The best revenge is the massive success.

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go.

The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. …The real enemy then is humanity itself.

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

I don’t care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don’t have any of their own

You’re alone in your ideas, because you’re the only one who knows what’s possible.

An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

We are a culture of people who’ve bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won’t catch up with us.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith – and that nothing has to be proven.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live.

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop’s mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

Never say no to an idea – you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

I think it’s better to have ideas. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier.

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you’ll get there

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain’t over till it’s over.

We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.